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Bug in Apple Devanagari Fonts 22 Aug 2013 | 03:11 pm
A poster in the Apple Support Communities has pointed out that the fonts Devanagari MT and Devanagari Sangam used for OS X and iOS produce the wrong glyph for the sequence ph + virama + n. Info on a ...
iWork for iCloud Beta: No RTL or Indic Support 19 Jul 2013 | 05:23 pm
Apple has released the public beta of its new iWork for iCloud, which provides a web version of Pages and other iWork apps. My initial tests with Pages indicate that support for Arabic/Hebrew and In...
New Language Features in OS X 10.9 Mavericks and iOS 7 11 Jun 2013 | 12:59 am
I did not see any new language features mentioned in the info available so far. Let me know if you have.
Indic Script Bug in Final Cut Pro X 7 Jun 2013 | 03:02 am
A poster in the Apple Support Communities has pointed out that it's not possible to create Tamil language titles in Final Cut Pro X via copy/paste -- nothing happens. Direct typing also does not work...
IDN Email Bug in iOS Mail 24 May 2013 | 08:24 pm
If you happen to have an email address that uses an International Domain Name (IDN), i.e. one which includes non-ASCII characters (like info@蓝天东.org), you will find that it's not possible to set up an...
Bug in Apple Devanagari Font 15 May 2013 | 10:43 pm
A poster in the Apple Support Communities has pointed out that the font Devanagari Sangam used for iOS (and also available in OS X 10.7 and higher) produces the wrong glyph for the sequence r + virama...
Typing Runic 14 May 2013 | 01:28 am
In addition to its historic uses, the Runic script appears in the recent Hobbit movie and the Tolkien book on which that is based. To type Runic in OS X you need to add a font and a keyboard layout f...
OS X: Glitches With Traditional Chinese Cangjie Input 12 May 2013 | 12:08 am
A poster in the Apple Support Communities recently pointed out that some Chinese characters cannot be made with the Cangjie sequences they were accustomed to, even though these worked fine on their iO...
OS X Specialized Language Fonts 11 Apr 2013 | 12:56 am
Various fonts provided with OS X have the necessary characters so they can be used for multiple languages. For example, Arial can do English, Greek, Russian, Hebrew, and Arabic. But Apple also provi...
Apple Opens Chinese Language Support Community 6 Apr 2013 | 01:31 am
Apple has just opened a Chinese-language set of user-to-user discussion forums (the Apple Support Communties), which you can get to at https://discussionschinese.apple.com/ This joins the existing ...
