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In Gujrati, to get for example the letter શ્રી, you add શ્ + ર to get શ્ર and then add ‍ી  to finnaly get શ્રી. This is why, in firefox and SVG, it shows up as શ્ ર‍ી. In Telegu, I guess the same is happening...

Edit: Tried it on Vista with Firefox - and as expected, the problem is no more!

Edited: Sunday, March 11, 2007 by gv

Language diferences are diverse, and differences occur even within languages. I thought of this limerick when I saw a dancing irishman on an Indian language website. Forum moderators are welcome to remove this limerick if preffered.

There was this young lass from Madras,
Who had a most remarkable as s,
It wasn't round and pink,
As some of you might think,
But was grey, had long ears, and ate grass.

Keep up the efforts Nadimini, the efoorts will benefit us all.

Poolzone  a mere cog in a revolution

Edited: Saturday, March 10, 2007 by poolzone

Letter ;Commonly used latin font typing ; correct latin font ; cyrillic font

nj (n+j); NJ, Nj, nj ; NJ, Nj, nj  ;  Њ, Њ, њ

lj (l+j); LJ, Lj, lj ; LJ, Lj, lj  ; Љ, Љ, љ

dž (d+ž); DŽ, Dž, dž ; DZ, Dz, dz or DŽ, Dž, dž ; Џ, Џ, џ

Try C/P and you'll see the difference, then you might try to see how they behave! .. some tools and programs don't even recognize special (correct) fonts at all! And if you try to use conversion tools latin->cyrillic you'll get results only for l+j, n+j etc.

Maybe in some common use and/or incorrect conversion lies the reason for this font problems!... If this is the case other way of typing might help. Unfortunately not all writings are fully supported by most fonts (In my country we had 6 different writings through ages... and although all of them are in theory supported by Unicode it's impossible to find a font that is functional with all of them at the same time).

One can always try to use some other more or less universal font i.e. "Code 2000", "Code 2001" etc. (I know I had to when I tried to right greek texts with correct accents...)

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"εν οιδα οτι ουδεν οιδα" (Σωκρατησ)  - "The only thing that I know is that I don't know anything" (Socrates)

In http://familytrees.genopro.com/gv/GujratiTest/ which is in English and Gujrati (another indian language), I use Arial Unicode Ms and have the same problem in SVG. Some names - not all, are different: check individual Rajeshree Amratlal રાજેશ્રી અમ્રતલાલ રઘુવંશિ which in SVG is rendered differently... It should be રાજેશ્રી

Edited: Saturday, March 10, 2007 by gv

It is possible to embed fonts within .svg files when using Adobe SVG Viewer but I'm not sure about the position with Firefox and what the legal position is regarding distributing fonts in this way.

I think that the rest of the report shows correctly in Telugu because the browser can select the encoding, and no font is indicated in the HTML

Poolzone  a mere cog in a revolution

Edited: Friday, March 9, 2007 by poolzone