[TYPO3-UG India] Strange problem with Tamil in GMENUs

[Dr. Ronald P. Steiner]

Hi Christian,

if you find an solution, please share with us. - I deal with the same 
problem.

greetings

Ron

Christian Lerrahn schrieb:
> Hi,
> the messages below have been posted on typo3-english before. However,
> as this concerns an Indian language, I decided I'd try my luck here,
> too. Anybody had this problem (an ImageMagick bug(?)) before and solved
> it?
> 
> Cheers,
> Christian
> 
> Hi,
> I'm trying to set up a site in Tamil but am having strange problems
> with the graphical menus. I can't read Tamil but the editor tells me
> that while he sees page titles correctly in the backend, they show up
> wrongly in the frontend menus. When we use a non-UTF-8 font, we can get
> correct menus. However, then the page titles will be wrong in the HTML
> because they need to be UTF-8 there.
> The problem seems to be that letters get swapped around. According to
> my understanding from studying websites about the Tamil alphabet these
> 2 letters actually form a kind of unit together. I can copy the
> combination தே in here but when I try to delete the second of the 2
> letters, it actually deletes the first (probably because the first one
> can't stand on its own).
> What I conclude is happening is that ImageMagick is mirroring this
> letter from the font file. However, I don't really understand why it
> would do that and even less why it would not do it in a regional
> encoding instead of UTF-8.
> Has anybody ever run into the kind of problem and has a hint for me?
> 
> EDIT: I've now tried the same directly via ImageMagick and I get the
> same effect.
> 
> convert -background lightblue -fill blue
> -font /usr/share/fonts/tamil/TAMu_Kadampari.ttf  -size 165x70 -encoding
> utf8 -gravity center label:தே  label_gravity.gif
> 
> will result in the 2 letters of the string being swapped. However, as I
> have now learned from someone who speaks Tamil, the (originally) first
> letter is now modifying the meaning of the third letter. I've tried
> that on 2 different systems with IM 6.4.0.6 and 6.3.7.9. Does anybody
> know if it is possible to fix this in IM? I'll also try the IM
> mailing list (if there happens to be one).
> 
> Cheers,
> Christian
>