[Bug 213883] New: Indic text rendering does not work in KMail composer

[Kumaran Santhanam]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213883

           Summary: Indic text rendering does not work in KMail composer
           Product: kmail
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Fedora RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: kumaran at alumni.stanford.org


Version:            (using KDE 4.3.1)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs

When entering Indic characters in KMail composer, the complex layout is not
rendered correctly.  However, when viewing emails, the rendering is correct.

Therefore, it is possible to use an external editor, copy/paste the text into
composer (which will display in a mangled form), send the email, then view it
correctly rendered in KMail.

For more information please refer to this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Multilingual_support_%28Indic%29

In the "Check for Existing Support" table, the images show how a browser is
expected to render the Indic text.  The second line is Tamil text, which is
given here as a test case for the KMail composer:

க கா கி கீ கு கூ கெ கே கை கொ கோ கௌ க்

Interestingly, the To: and Subject: fields rendering properly when using the
same test case.  It is only the main composer widget that is unable to perform
the complex layout.

The KDE editor Kate correctly inputs and renders this text.  If the underlying
editing components are shared across KDE, it may just be a matter of enabling
the complex text layout option for the KMail composer.

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