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

On 08/22/2011 09:42 AM, planas wrote:
> 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.

I also recommend that you ask/post on
l10n@global.libreoffice.org: Discussions list for people involved in
LibreOffice localization.
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