Wednesday 24 November 2010

WPF Open Type Fonts!

I was always overly excited for the Open Type Font support that WPF had and was actually looking forward
for rendering the following in WFP.
ಕನ್ನಡ
हिंदी बे
గుల్తే ను
WPF 4.0, 3.5 adds Open Type Font Rendering support for a pletora of Indic Scripts. Check this out
WPF 3.0 had limited support.
Good work Microsoft!

A good read on WPF Globalization and Localization

WPF provides globalized design features, including automatic layout, satellite assemblies, and localized attributes and commenting.  Check this example for more

Friday 19 November 2010

Google, When can i get Indic Font Support on my HTC Desire ?

HTC_Desire_multiview_h1

It is such a shame that at the time of writing this, Google has not officially enabled Indic Font Support on Android, Guess??, Limited multilingual support from Android. What a shame!!!. I tried a hack to get around this by installing a kannada TTF font. You can expect the obvious, glyphs are not rendered correctly.

I was of the opinion that the TTF fonts were missing, NO, the fault is with the rendering mechanism on android ?, Wondering could it be because some of the Indic Fonts also require custom rendering support from the OS. I STILL Can’t believe Google missed Indic Font Support. Google needs to add Indic font support soon, It’s going to loose out big time in Indian markets!., C’mon, There is a dev lab in Bangalore, India!!!

Wake up Google!!

Issues

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=4153

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=5925