In #Ubuntu, the fonts for #Malayalam and several other scripts are a bit broken. As you can see in the Google+ screenshot, headers are not displayed. This is probably because the font provided by Ubuntu does not support bold or something.
Obviously, the best solution is when the fonts used by Ubuntu provide the full support applications expect. When these fonts fail as they do, it is possible to provide web fonts. Google is very much into web fonts but it seems that they have a preoccupation with the one script that is already so well supported.
It would be so cool when the people who develop fonts would concentrate their efforts where they provide the most benefit. Enabling the full functionality of a script and its associated languages on the Internet is arguably more relevant then prettifying single webpages.
Thanks,
GerardM
4 comments:
What default fonts do you have in your browser? I use DejaVu and it mostly works.
What script is Google preoccupied with?
The Latin script
What browser are your using? I have seen similar problem with Tamil in Google chrome but not in Firefox.
http://naveen-ubuntu.blogspot.in/2011/06/linux-ubutu-tamil-fonts-rendering-in.html
suggests a solution for this
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