[Wikimediaindia-l] mobile editing & reading of Wikipedia

[Kiran Jonnalagadda]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>wrote:

> So Android uses Unicode fonts, fonts may not be available.. Just complain
> LOUDLY and PUBLICLY and together that not supporting fonts for Indic
> languages is not acceptable in India (and outside of India <grin> ).
>

Android 1.5 did not support Indic rendering at all. AFAIK, this problem
continued until 2.0.

Android 2.1 does not support web fonts and Indic fonts are not shipped with
any device I know of.

Android 2.2 does support web fonts and indic rendering, but doesn't ship
with fonts either. Here's a quick test page for anyone who wants to check
from their phone:
http://experimenting.in/css3/webfonts/hindifontsdemo/devanagarifonts.htm
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