515293 - Add default Mac font for Malayalam

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Graphics, defect)

Description

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #442161 +++

Tom Gewecke just pointed out a new/the first AAT Malayalam font now available http://m10lmac.blogspot.com/2009/09/new-malayalam-font-for-os-x.html

According to the font's website, the people behind the AAT port believe rendering is just fine in Firefox 3.x (but they note Safari and Pages have issues; dunno if that's CoreText, or WebKit and whatever custom buggy text layer Pages uses, or bugs in the font).

I'm not in a position to judge whether the font is complete enough/bug-free enough for us to set as default (see bug 442161 comment 2), but I no longer see glyph boxes while browsing through Malayalam websites, so filing this to get it on file and so we can start thinking about/investigating it.

Comment 1

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Wikipedia's Indic support page also mentions another font, Dharani, from prokerala.com: http://www.prokerala.com/malayalam/

Again, I'm not in a position to judge quality.

Comment 2

[Ali Juma [:ajuma]]

Is this something we're still interested in doing?