Issues with printing languages in unicode.

I am trying to print in Tamil and running into an issue where Kivy misprints the unicode language. Here is a short script and an Image showing the issue. To show comparison, here is same text print in Pyside and how it looks correctly.

  #!/usr/bin/python
  # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

  from kivy.app import App
  from kivy.uix.button import Button

  class TestApp(App):
      def build(self):
          return Button(text='விகடகவி'.decode('utf-8'),font_name='Uni Ila.Sundaram-01.ttf',font_size=50)

  TestApp().run()

The language combines letters together and sometimes rearranges consonants around vowels. Kivy has trouble parsing this.

These last two pictures just provide another example of a different phrase on a different computer. Same issue.

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[matham]

As mentioned here, this should be fixed once sdl_ttf is released (or someone undertakes to build kivy using the unreleased version of sdl_ttf) because it now can use harfbuzz.

[Sahil-pixel]

@MS-Jahan This issue is open from 2014 .I don’t know why kivy team not solving this problem.