Its support for the Malayalam script is much improved. The Unicode characters show perfectly, it is only the old chillu characters that are an issue.Life would be perfect when there was a way to actually enter the Malayalam characters.. Please Apple, what about an input method ?
Thanks,
GerardM
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O noez! The evil reign of Apple is spreading o_O
When they provide the best support, it is welcome news. I would like Android to do more of such heavy lifting.
Thanks,
GerardM
Life would be perfect when there was a way to actually enter the Malayalam characters.. Please Apple, what about an input method ?
One of the Malayalam language computing activist has developed the tool for typing Malayalam in iphone/ipad. Details are here (but it is in Malayalam):
http://chithrangal.blogspot.com/2010/06/blog-post_21.html
old chillus are obsolete now. So it is not a major issue.
Telugu font display on ios 4 seems fine. Some minor issues in one or two Gmail menus ( Trash/ Home) were noticed.
Telugu typing is also fine with the built in Telugu Phonetic typing method of Telugu Wikipedia.
For using other applications like mail, if Gmail can be configured to run in local language , desktop mode, with Google Transliterate toolbutton, the input method issue is solved. I tried for some time but did not succeed.
Finally Indic users can enter the smartphone world , without being tied to just local language menus and SMS.
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