Thanks Behdad. I will try it. Regards, Satish <div>On 7/24/07, Behdad Esfahbod <<a href="mailto:behdad@behdad.org">behdad@behdad.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 13:04 -0400, satish kambala wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to use cairo library for rendering images (including text) > in 'Hindi' language (Indian language). Hindi lanugauge > follows devanagari script. I am using free type unicode font file > (arialuni.ttf ) for doing this. I observed that some characters are > not > rendered properly. In the following image, I should get the right side > image where as I get the left side image. > > Image:Example.of.complex.text.rendering.svg > > After a bit of reading came to know that rendering libraries should > support complex script rendering to take care of these cases. > (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Enabling_complex_text_support_for_Indic_scripts">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Enabling_complex_text_support_for_Indic_scripts </a>) > > I would like to know if cairo supports this, if so do I have to do > anything to enable this. Also will using some other font file other > than arial unicode file helps? > > If cairo doesn't support this, is there any other hack (like using > some patches or plugins) to accomplish this? Cairo doesn't support this.  You should use pango+cairo.  That is not a hack though, it's a proper solution. > Please let me know if I made any wrong assumptions. Thanks in > advance. > > Thanks, > Satish -- behdad <a href="http://behdad.org/">http://behdad.org/</a> "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."         -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 </blockquote></div>