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Kaarkkodakan fix for Pango

The pango bug #441654 about mprefixups for Malayalam, better known as "Kaarkkodakan" issue has now undergone a history of one year and has caused a lot of pain among Malayalam users. It has also seen a lot of patches like this so far. But none of them neither solve the problem completely nor were they fit for Pango's coding style.

Now, finally I have come up with a patch that looks pretty much generic and does not affect the coding style much. Also the testing done so far proves to be fine. All the test cases reported so far have been fixed up without anything else getting affected. Manilal has also did his bit by doing the testing himself and posting the screen shots. Now if everything goes fine and Behdad's critical eye doesn't spot any problem :-), hope to see this one getting committed for next pango release soon.
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  1. david santos2:49 PM

    Hello, Rahul!
    I loved thsi post and this blog.
    Happy day

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  2. Anivar12:24 AM

    Congrats Rahul for the much awaited patch. I will also test it tommorrow. We had karkodakan B'day celibration in between :-)

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  3. Baiju Muthukadan9:44 AM

    Thank you very much for this patch !

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  4. jinsbond00710:12 AM

    thank you very much rahul!!!

    Sometime back i too spent a lot of time on rewriting the patch!!! Thank you for coming up with a simple and good patch!!! i havent tested it. Will let you know the results soon

    cheers

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