[XeTeX] Tamil unicode character not displaying correctly

[Fahad Al-Saidi]

I am using Netrunner 13.12 (based on Ubuntu 13.10)  and It has the latest
version of texlive witch is  2013.

Regards,
Fahad


On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2014-02-27 15:15 GMT+01:00 dsv <ojdfpiv at gmail.com>:
> > I uninstalled whatever tex I had obtained via the Synaptic Package
> Manager
> > and installed the latest version from the tug.org website. The problem
> I had
> > been facing disappeared! Thanks for the tips.
> >
> > I don't know who maintains texlive in the Ubuntu repository. I would be
> > instructive to upgrade that to the latest version as many people I know
> use
> > a package manager (apt-get or Synaptic) to install software. If Ubuntu
> says
> > that I have the latest version of a certain software, I tend to believe
> it.
> > In this case, that was disproved.
> >
> With any Linux distro you never have the latest versions of anything.
> They only differ in how old versions you have. It has several reasons.
> Maintainers of distros verify stability and security, they do not
> include untested versions. And the second reason is time. It always
> needs some work to package it and thus time is needed. TeX is very
> complex, packaging TeX Live is not an easy task. For most users old
> version of TeX Live is good enough but the support of Indick scripts
> and languages is quite new, thus for users of Indic scripts having the
> latest version is important. Ubuntu certainly has bugzilla where you
> can report issues.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:04 PM, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> 2014-02-26 17:17 GMT+01:00 dsv <ojdfpiv at gmail.com>:
> >> > Thanks Zdenek. I am using the same font in Ubuntu and Windows. It is
> >> > called
> >> > "Lohit Tamil". Both Ubuntu and Cygwin seem to be running the same
> >> > version of
> >> > xetex - 3.1415926. The sub-version seems a little different. However,
> I
> >> > don't know how to ensure that the same exact version of xelatex is
> >> > running
> >> > on both Cygwin and Ubuntu. I used the setup manager on Cygwin which
> >> > offers
> >> > only one version; on Ubuntu I used the Synaptic package manager.
> >> >
> >> 3.1415926 is version of TeX, not XeTeX. The TeX version converges to
> >> \pi. Whenever D. E. Knuth fixes a bug, another digit is added. The
> >> number after the hyphen denotes the version of the engine. You can
> >> immediatelly see in the parenthesis, that in Cygwin you use the latest
> >> official version from TeX Live 2013 while in Ubuntu you use a very old
> >> version from TeX Live 2009. Harfbuzz was added in 2013 so it is
> >> natural that it is not mentioned in that old version. You should first
> >> upgrade your TeX in Ubuntu. If new deb packages are not available, it
> >> is possible to install TeX Live directly from www.tug.org and you can
> >> always keep it up-to-date no matter whether it is supplied in Ubuntu
> >> or not. No one is going to fix bugs in 5 years old XeTeX.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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