Lack of Complex script rendering support on Android

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)

Looking on the Android issues tracker I found over 60 related issues*
 reported since May 2009 - yet nothing seems to be being done to
address this. I'm wondering if there is someone from Google on the
Unicode mailing list who could look into this and let us know if there
are any plans for general support of complex scripts on Android phones
and tablets? Samsung have apparently included complex script support
on a few devices they sell in India.

* issues: 2600, 3008, 3027, 3029, 4153, 5925, 4153, 6283, 8103, 9045,
9248, 9859, 10685, 10750, 11999, 12674, 12981, 13022, 13967, 14234,
15171, 15895, 16306, 16939, 16144, 17011, 17279, 17291, 17445, 17563,
17573, 17576, 17803, 17850, 17992, 18178, 18235, 18392, 18859, 18936,
18950, 19050, 19352 19410, 19466, 19470, 19691, 19735, 19946, 19963,
21284, 20141, 20161, 20198, 20485, 20486, 20655, 20744, 20772, 20785.
21196, 21382

- chris
Received on Fri Nov 04 2011 - 03:34:23 CDT