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.
I have some more information that may help narrow down the problem: 1. Open KMail composer (Ctrl+N) 2. Paste the following characters: க கா கி கீ கு கூ கெ கே கை கொ கோ கௌ க் 3. Note how the rendering is not correct. 4. Go the beginning of the line and add the quote char '>': > க கா கி கீ கு கூ கெ கே கை கொ கோ கௌ க் 5. The rendering is now correct! From this test, it seems that the composer does have the ability to render the text properly in some contexts. Can somebody who has worked on composer code provide some insight?
I'm using KDE 4.3.3 on openSuse 11.2 and have already installed already a current snapshot of Qt4.6 (4.5.80+4.6.20091111). With this setup, I see no rendering problems. Can you try to upgrade at least to the newest official Qt version if you don't have that already (4.5.3) ?
I am using KDE 4.3.2 with Qt 4.5.3. Upon further investigation, I have narrowed down the issue. When automatic spellchecking is disabled, the rendering is correct. It seems that the red underline is interfering with the complex text layout functionality.
Hello! Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but this version of Kmail has been unmaintained for many years so I am closing this bug. Please try using the latest version of Kmail to see if your issue persists. If it does, please submit a new bug in "kmail2". Thank you!