Re: [libreoffice-users] Where to report a bug with Tamil text rendering in LibreOffice?

Shriramana

On Mon, 2011-08-22 at 18:56 +0530, Shriramana Sharma wrote: 

> I am using LibreOffice 3.3.3 on Kubuntu Natty and 3.4.2 on Windows XP. 
> On both installations I observe the following bug:
>
> In Tamil, vowelless consonants are considered independent grapheme 
> clusters on their own as they do not ligate with following consonants 
> unlike other Indic scripts. (The only exception is க் ligating with ஷ to 
> form க்ஷ.)
>
> Take for example the Tamil word சித்திரை (name of a month). The grapheme 
> cluster split-out is: சி|த்|தி|ரை and not சி|த்தி|ரை. However, when my 
> cursor is to the left of த் and I press the right-cursor key, the cursor 
> moves to the right of தி, and vice versa with left-cursor key. Obviously 
> LibreOffice considers த்தி as a single cluster. Other applications (like 
> for example Thunderbird which I am using to compose this mail) correctly 
> treat த் and தி as separate grapheme clusters.
>
> This faulty behaviour is seen for all CONSONANT + VIRAMA + CONSONANT 
> sequences in Tamil in LibreOffice.
>
> Should I report this against LibreOffice in the FreeDesktop Bugzilla  or 
> elsewhere against some other rendering library that LO uses?
>
> -- 
> Shriramana Sharma

I would post the bug against LO. There may be other languages with
similar problems.

-- 
Jay Lozier
jslozier@gmail.com

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