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Indian languages such as Malayalam has been mentioned. there is no need to write about them again
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(Indian languages such as Malayalam has been mentioned. there is no need to write about them again)
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* Improve complex glyph rendering
* Improve complex glyph rendering
* Support more complex languages (Hebrew, Persian, Arabic, pangool, all Indian languages)
* Support more complex languages (Persian, Hebrew, Arabic, pangool, all Indian languages)
* Multilingual browser, to allow single binary for multilingual systems
* Multilingual browser, to allow single binary for multilingual systems
* Being able to switch user-interface language ''without'' restarting the browser.
* Being able to switch user-interface language ''without'' restarting the browser.
* The implementing of the bidirectional algorithm #1 if it isn't already implemented so that Firefox could render Arabic #2 phrases embedded in English texts correctly.#1 : see http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/ #2 : not restricted to Arabic only but to all RTL complex scripts.
* The implementing of the bidirectional algorithm #1 if it isn't already implemented so that Firefox could render Arabic #2 phrases embedded in English texts correctly.#1 : see http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/ #2 : not restricted to Arabic only but to all RTL complex scripts.


* Convert/Fix/Implement the Unicode control characters or the 'byte code'to the real script,which happens when you type Arabic #2 text in the location bar and click 'Go', the text gets converted to weird characters(Unicode control characters).
* Convert/Fix/Implement the Unicode control characters or the 'byte code'to the real script,which happens when you type Persian or Arabic #2 text in the location bar and click 'Go', the text gets converted to weird characters(Unicode control characters).


; Localization
; Localization
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<th colspan="2">MALAYALAM support</th>
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Please try to include the support for Malayalam language followed by millions of people from the Kerala state in India. IE already supports this.
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<th colspan="2">Indian "Languages"</th>
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Can we stop calling Indian languages "dialects"? And yes, I support the previous comment, firefox still doesn't render Indic scripts (you need to recompile with pango etc). This needs to be fixed.
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