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Hi there,

I'm having trouble viewing Unicode Tamil Characters in my new nexus phone

I have already changed the encoding to UTF-8 in the browser settings

eg: http://www.bbc.co.uk/tamil/

This is really embarrassing as I did not have any issue viewing them on my iphone

Thanks,
Faheem
Hong Kong

Hi to all, I try to get it work in Android 2.2 (i use emulator), but I cant. In other browsers it works

var img=new Image();
img.src="http://www.nephronplus.eu/themes/main/images/EU-Flag.png";
img.onload = function()
    {
 var canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
  canvas.width = this.width;
   canvas.height = this.height;
   var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
    ctx.drawImage(this,0,0);
   var dataURL = canvas.toDataURL("image/png");
document.getElementById("testImg").src=dataURL ;

}

Havw you any idea?

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Please support Tamil fonts in android, I am also waiting for Tamil fonts in my Nexus one, this is a serious drawback for me because most of my browsing and my friends Tweet are in Tamil, and my friends using iPhone are able to view the tamil font without any issues. please include this font.



Thanks
James

Hi,
I am HTC desire user and i would be very happy if Android starts supporting TAMIL fonts.

Pls do provide Unicode Tamil language support in Andriod. Many of my friends are using Tamil on there smart phones. Pls do provide Tamil unicode support.


Nexus-One
Singapore

Please provide support for Tamil fonts in the Android. This is really embarrassing to say that Android does not support tamil font whereas iphone is able to support. This would tempt android user to switch to iphone especially with new iphone4 now.

Please do support tamil fonts and iphone can able to support.

I am searching every single day to see, if there has been a update, or a new way , or somthing tweaking that i can implement to get tamil / indian laguages working in android !

Google guys .... Please get this done for us. We are waiting to develop thousands of apps !

hi, as you've mentioned I've installed opera mini in my HTC desire but still I cannot view Tamil letters in web pages. can anyone suggest me if settings changes required for this?

 I would love to see Tamil UNICODE support in my NexusOne.

I am using GalaxyS. Is there is any progress to support unicode characters of Tamil language in 'GingerBread'? Please respond this thread.

Eagerly waiting for the support of Telugu font on Android. Please Help I am just seeing Squares in my new Galaxy Captivate : ( ...

+1 localized language is a plus. Tamil is quiet a popular.

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Ios 4 supports Tamil.... please guys do something!

I have no idea, how can google not support Tamil and other languages from south asia. It is just lame.

tamil support pls.

Need Tamil font support on Android platform

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Without Tamil language, android is a dead phone for me!!!

I too want Indian lauganges, Esp hindi and Marathi.

I need Tamil language support in Android. Thanks.

I need Kannada support

It will help us a lot , if you guys release tamil unicode font support.
Android will reach all levels of the society.
Excepting soon.

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I too need TELUGU language support very badly,
The solution has to come directly from Google, coz the Unicode set is quite differnt from Telugu(Other Indian languges) and European languages ... I think Indisms developer applications which helped with symbian platform has to enter android to go further ..!

Thanks in Advance.
Seenu ..!(Andhra) nanihothearts5@gmail.com

@rameshs78
Open the address about:config in your opera mini browser. This will open the browser’s option page.
Scroll down until you see something like this: Use bitmap fonts for complex scripts.
Set the above option value to yes and then click on Save button.

All the web traffic from Opera Mini browser goes through Opera’s proxy servers, which optimize the web content for mobile experience. As I said above, Opera Mini does not have the capability to render complex scripts in mobile. So, by setting the above option, we are letting the Opera’s proxy servers to render the complex scripts as images and send those images to mobile browser. Thus you’ll see the regional content as images, instead of fonts.

so we need the andriod platform to support tamil/telugu etc unicode fonts to support, like this many reasons are there, that is why still andriod cannot take iphones place.

Thanks selvabharathi. Even though not perfect, able to read Tamil websites now. Dumping Android browser from now :)

Telugu language support/fonts please. It would be great if a time line, even approximate, can be provided.

@pugazholi thanks for the feedback, came across a blog to change fonts, in android:

http://karuppuswamy.com/wordpress/2009/04/25/how-to-change-fonts-in-android/ 

i didn't verify the above method since not holding any android device, but my nokia 5530 is also having issues in displaying Unicode fonts, please update us if the above solution is solve the Unicode font issue.

I am eagerly waiting for Indic support in android.  Is mobile revolution is only for particular region in world? Please support all unicode languages as soon as possible.

Come on guys.. how can a cool phone loaded with Android OS lacks with such stupid problem of no support for Unicode languages?
I mean, is google android team sleeping?
Please get us Indic language support ASAP! or we will start all India campaign to let know everyone who are moving to Android based phone from symbian/windows/iphone ios based phones... and this will be going to real trouble for Android here in India..

it is a shame on Google & Android as as on date they donot support INDIC languages especially when they are in so-called UNICODE encoding.

Also it is disgusting  to note  the  South indians who claim to be the "IT Brains" of india  are yet to develop any application & put into the Android Market which will enable  to read Indic language contents in the text  messgaes,e-mail messages, word files etc.

Thank god , at least there is a short cut  to view Tamil Web pages in tamil script(may not be a font but an image) thru Opera mini Browser.

It is a high time that Android &/ Google wake up and support INDIC languages, if not  Symbian s  will capture the market.
any one ,who can share any development in this  is requested to contact me  at   vganapathy1000@gmail.com
Nanri-Thanx-दन्यवाद

"கூகுள்" உலகின் தலை சிறந்த மென்பொருள் நிறுவனம். இந்நிறுவனத்தின் தலைச்சிறந்த மென்பொருள் "அன்ட்ராயிடு". ஆனால் என்று தான் மேற்கண்ட வாக்கியத்தை அன்ட்ராயில் படிக்க முடியுமோ?!!?!!? - தெரியவில்லை !!!????!!!

At least Google can provide a font that has glyphs for Tamil / other Indic languages as iPhone provided until they gave full rendering support on iOS4. If font size is a concern they should give an option at least for a normal user to replace a system font with a font they would like to see. I don't think people at Google are not aware of all these things, I believe it is just neglected that they think  they do not want an Indian market share for Android as of today.

I realy expect Tamil font from Android . totaly i am disappoint i am expect tamil font from google. google android team is sleeping, pls walkup.. thanks

android has been launched ...over a couple years...alot tamil apps are in market, opera browser does Tamil. Freaking apple's Ios does everything in Tamil! Why google...why...why in the world are we still waiting... Since android 1.5 & then 1.6, ...eclair...froyo...& now gingerbread...does gingerbread support global fonts...unicode fonts? Please answer...

I am not from Google, but I can answer that Gingerbread does not support Tamil. Since development is closed and Google is mum about these things, we won't know if it would be in Honeycomb until it's release time. Just finished testing Gingerbread and noted that Hindi does not work even thought the release notes claim otherwise.

guys, There is a Tamil browser in the Android Market . It is still in the early phase but able to see some tamil sites like dinamalar etc. I am still evaluation it. Its a paid app so I guess the developer will definitely put more into it.

@ravi.chhabra
It is a  real bad news for us know this issue on Gingerbread, don't know when this will be resolved we need atleast  promising reply

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I use opera mini to read Tamil websites on my android. But it is a real shame that android has not come up with the Unicode support by itself. If google is really serious about Indian market, then it should be done as a priority.Until then iPhone would rule the roost.