2011/11/4 Mahesh T. Pai <paiva...@gmail.com>: > Christopher Fynn said on Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 02:27:30PM +0600,: > > > Although Adnroid devices "support Unicode" - it seems there is no > > support for complex script rendering on almost all Android devices > > which makes them pretty useless for text communication in all Indian > > languages (and many others too) > > And strangely, Android uses harfbuss, ICU and pango for text > layout. All libraries support Indic; and it seems that at compile > time, support for Indic is disabled. > > Thanks for taking the pain to identify the bug/ issue numbers. > > As pointed out, some devices sold in India support _some_ Indic > scripts. That is it.
It may depend on the device. The manufacturer can compile Android as he wants apparently, and suppress/disable some modules. I have no problem on my Samsung S 2 that displays properly all languages shown on the home page of Wikimedia Commons for example.
