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Question About Correct Display of Malayalam
Thread poster: SMSteele
SMSteele
SMSteele
United States
Local time: 09:53
Apr 29, 2015

I'm having some disagreement between two linguists about the proper font for Malayalam. One of the linguists is suggesting that our Malayalam is not displaying correctly and that the Unicode standards have recently been updated. I need an independent third source to verify that the Malayalam text I've already delivered to the client is displaying correctly.

Are there specific fonts we should be using in Word, Excel or other Microsoft products so we can be sure we are using the rig... See more
I'm having some disagreement between two linguists about the proper font for Malayalam. One of the linguists is suggesting that our Malayalam is not displaying correctly and that the Unicode standards have recently been updated. I need an independent third source to verify that the Malayalam text I've already delivered to the client is displaying correctly.

Are there specific fonts we should be using in Word, Excel or other Microsoft products so we can be sure we are using the right one?

Also, this text will be copied and pasted into the client's database and I am concerned it will not display correctly there either. ▲ Collapse
 
Rolf Keller
Rolf Keller
Germany
Local time: 15:53
English to German
Wikipedia gives links to Unicode documents Apr 29, 2015

SMSteele wrote:

that the Unicode standards have recently been updated.


http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0D00.pdf (June 2014, should be the latest)
 


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