My family is residing in USA and we are from India. Now my mom gets super bored at home! And loves to read the regional online newspaper and magazines from India on the Internet; problem is she doesn't know how to use a computer! Me or my dad has to sit with her and click links for her, I have never heard anyone say a simple back in a browser in so many ways!.   Interestingly, she didn't have a hard time in using my dad's iPhone 4, in which he managed to lose!    I already own a Asus Transformer 300t and I tried to instapaper the websites she visits  this she doesnt miss at any chance.  Problem is, those turn up beautifully on the desktop/webapp but the fonts aren't rendered properly on my tablet or any Android device, before I go ahead and get a Nexus 7 or Galaxy Tab 7, can I have this font show up on Android or at least, instapaper.  All I need to do is instapaper every article when I come home in evening (morning time in India, meaning the newspaper just came out), so that she can read it next day and as a trial run on my tablet!,   Also, those websites, at least the one mentioned above, don't implement RSS feeds or else I could have had my Calibre auto generate/fetch daily news and make an e-book every day and download it on the tab. But I also don't know if those fonts will be detected on Kindle app or any app for that matter!  I know I can try having it outputted as PDF but teaching her to go to PDF and then browse; that's too much for me to teach! The instapaper works smoothly, open instapaper, read headlines, tap that and read/scroll/read , press back next article... plus I still got to download that PDF for her to the tablet  Also reason I'm saying Instapaper often is cause only that will detect the actual title of article  Some screenshots: for following  Android Apps:        Web Version:
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Please excuse the length of this question. I need to explain all this to help others and to avoid helpful contributors to provide answer without asking clarifications.  My requirement in one line: "to enable an Android phone to display Tamil characters properly".  Elaboration: Tamil, like any other Indian language has complex character rendering system. Unlike English or other Latin based script, it has glyph (what you see in screen) composed of more than one character.  Android does not have ability to render such complex scripts (with exceptions). My aim is to know how I can provide such an ability to an Android phone or tablet.  Little background that I gathered so far: To display a glyph in screen, Android first needs a suitable font file.  Android device has a folder /system/fonts which has few of them.  The most interesting file in that folder is the DroidSansFallback.ttf.  As the name suggests, when Android's system fails to find a character in system fonts (that could be DroidSans.ttf or DroidSans-Bold.ttf etc) it falls back to search it in DroidSansFallback.ttf.  By replacing a suitable font file from PC (Latha.ttf or Lohit-Tamil.ttf - these are fonts for Tamil) and DroidSansFallback.ttf will enable to display Tamil characters in the device. It is not so easy to replace and it involves rooting the device and mounting the system as writable.   In spite of those troubles, even if the DroidSansFallback.ttf is replaced, the Tamil characters that are displayed are not rendered properly.  The Tamil character "தி" is a conjunct of two characters and instead of getting displayed as "தி", it will be displayed as "த ி" without space in between. Though this is enough to read short messages, it cannot be used to read books etc.  From Android 4.0 on wards, Tamil and other few languages are supported through browser as said in Android 4.x API overview as seen below.  Support for Indic fonts (Devanagari, Bengali, and Tamil, including the complex character support needed for combining glyphs) in WebView and the built-in Browser   The words to notice is "in WebView and the built-in Browser", which means that Tamil characters will be rendered perfectly if it is rendered as HTML content and will not be rendered otherwise.  Opera and other few browsers did this even before Android 4.0 by substituting image instead of character.  I noticed that in few devices that target Indian market (ex: LG Optimus One, most of Samsung phones and tablets) are able to display Tamil properly both in browser and even in places out of browser like in contacts, text messages, file names etc.  To my surprise they do this even in Android 2.3 onwards.  I also noticed that the same model targeting non-Indian country running same version of Android does not support Tamil character display.  This made me to investigate further and reached a conclusion that Android (as other Linux based OS) depends on a font rendering engine to display such complex characters.  The two engines that I came across are Skia and Harfbuzz. I noticed LG uses skia and Samsung uses Harfbuzz libraries in their devices to bring this ability.  I came across many websites suggesting to replaces these libraries and fonts. It did not work and results in freezing.  Fortunately I backed up using clockworkmod and hence I restored my phone.  Though I had explained this with Tamil, this is applicable for most of the Indian languages.  Here comes my question (if you are still reading;) ) Now, far sure it is clear that a TTF file should be present to provide characters and an appropriate libraries (libskia.so or libharfbuzz.so) are required to render them correctly.  Does any one know how these manufacturers are able to provide the ability? I am even ready to build my own ROM from AOSP (Android Open Source Project).
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I found this one on UserVoice, and I thought it was fitting to bring it up here for further discussion.  "Stack&nbsp;Overflow already works with Mobile Safari, but the experience is far from optimum. I believe an iPhone-optimized version (or maybe even a native client) would be perfect. I can help with either."  I personally think a some kind of mobile version of Stack&nbsp;Overflow would be great for using as a reference, but using it to ask questions would probably get cumbersome if you had to type up a long question with full description. However, using it to look up an answer when you're away from your desk would be awesome.  But, why not just use the regular Stack&nbsp;Overflow? Well, we all know that the small, touch screens get cumbersome to use when navigating websites built for desktops.
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I frequently edit questions on StackOverflow, and I always fix the "i" into "I". See this .     When i I start my tomcat, i I am getting this problem.   How could i I resolve this problem.   Am I right to do so?     points out an interesting thread illustrating that debate:    the MetaSO question "" (and ):      The point of text on a site like this is to communicate.   Why do you want  to make it harder to communicate than it has to be?   You may like writing with no capitalization, but I think it's pretty clear that people prefer reading with capitalization.   If you don't care about making life easier for those trying to help you, why do you think anyone will bother helping you in the first place?    The article "" also refers to norms.      Readers of the modern English language have grown accustomed to certain norms. Paragraphs, for one. Punctuation. Consistent spelling. And, of course, capitalization.
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Recently, . Therefore, one of our illustrious members sought out an Amazon link to a clock that would solve all of animuson's needs. And this happened:    It's huge. Like, screen-shatteringly huge. It even prompted :     Why are Amazon one-boxes so huge? Someone write up a feature request to decrease their size. Sheesh. - animuson   ... and :     why are amazon products one boxed in the first place? - jmac   Therefore, we should decrease the size of these helpful thingys. Please?
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I was reading the news on Yahoo and found a mistake (as per my opinion). I need your valuable feedback to make sure if it was a mistake or I am wrong! It is a paragraph on Yahoo. Please check and let me know.  On Yahoo:     There has been a shift of power, control and decision making from the   parents and elders of the family to the individuals themselves. That   is not saying that parents and the family is not involved in the   decision, but there is much more emphasis placed on what the   individuals want, what they are looking for and who they will be   compatible with.   As per my opinion:     There has been a shift of power, control and decision making from the   parents and elders of the family to the individuals themselves. That   is not saying that parents and the family are not involved in the   decision, but there is much more emphasis placed on what the   individuals want, what they are looking for and who they will be   compatible with.   Thanks in advance.
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I'm trying to make a document that has a very small font throughout, I tried this:  \documentclass[0.5mm, a4paper]{article} \documentclass[7pt, a4paper]{article}   But it doesn't seem that they allow me to go anything below 10pt.  This hack make it work, but not for the section headers:  \fontsize{4mm}{5mm}\selectfont   Does anyone know any better ways to do this?
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I got an article from some page, I don't know which. Is there some Google search way of finding the parent page?  Say for example from page A I navigated to page B. Page B is a PDF document. How to instruct Google search to search for pages that link to page B?
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Oh man, I don't even know where to put this... or how to begin. As a joke, I'm trying to get the ascii art of the guy flipping a table in a question on an exam. I've tried verbatim but it won't display the characters.  I know it might be a long shot, but does anyone have an idea how to get this little guy  (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻   to display? I know I should provide a MWE, but... yeah, I don't even have that.  Thanks!
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If you click on  the font color is almost unreadable on the main site here.  Is it possible to make it a slightly different color? (I cannot say if darker or lighter is better)
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Yesterday, I was browsing the mobile Stack Overflow site. I noticed one thing: the textareas where you write your comments/answers are very buggy. I'm using a Samsung Galaxy S2, with the standard Android browser (Android version 4.1.2). There are a number of things that aren't working when typing your comment/answer.   Automatic spacing with Swype is disabled (however this might be because of Swype, not the site). Text navigation buttons (step left, step right, select text, copy text etc.) doesn't work with the on-screen keyboard, and selecting text by holding your finger over text is extremely difficult. When you paste something it always seems to be pasted at the top of your text, no matter where you try to paste it. Replying to another comment ("@Example User") does not show suggested people to reply to, like the full site does.   Is there anything I can do to solve these issues/bugs, or is it in the hands of Stack Overflow itself, and if so, should it be looked into?  Edit: I was using the mobile version of the site when noticing these bugs.
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I'm trying to figure out a decent solution (especially from the SEO side) for embedding fonts in web pages. So far I have seen , which doesn't even work on Firefox, and . The second solution is for titles only. Is there a solution available for full text? I'm tired of the standard fonts for web pages.  Thanks!
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If I scroll from an answer back to the question the questions text isn't visible any more:    After scrolling it again the text appears partially:    Sometimes the answer will appear with a very small font:    Source code doesn't appear in full width neither:    and when I scroll, the grey background covers the source code completely:    This makes the app totally unusable.  Galaxy S2, Android 4.0.3. App version 1.0.51
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I have an HTML (not XHTML) document that renders fine in Firefox 3 and IE 7.  It uses fairly basic CSS to style it and renders fine in HTML.  I'm now after a way of converting it to PDF.  I have tried:   : it had huge problems with tables.  I factored out my large nested tables and it helped (before it was just consuming up to 128M of memory then dying--thats my limit on memory in php.ini) but it makes a complete mess of tables and doesn't seem to get images.  The tables were just basic stuff with some border styles to add some lines at various points; : I actually had better luck with this.  It rendered some of the images (all the images are Google Chart URLs) and the table formatting was much better but it seemed to have some complexity problem I haven't figured out yet and kept dying with unknown node_type() errors.  Not sure where to go from here; and : this seems to work fine on basic HTML but has almost no support for CSS whatsoever so you have to do everything in HTML (I didn't realize it was still 2001 in Htmldoc-land...) so it's useless to me.   I tried a Windows app called Html2Pdf Pilot that actually did a pretty decent job but I need something that at a minimum runs on Linux and ideally runs on-demand via PHP on the Webserver.  What am I missing, or how can I resolve this issue?
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I'm failing to find a replacement for  to use on the Web. I'm using  (portfolio), and right now using  which is much wider than Univers. I tried Googleing but no luck, so I decided to sign up and ask the pros.
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Will there ever be a full mobile support for Stack Overflow ?   The main page is optimized which is perfect because it makes Asking / Answering easier. With the main page comes the Badges / Tags tabs which are less important pages IMO but anyway they come with it.   My point is the help section should be optimized for mobile too. It's one of the most important pages for new users and I'm sure many users like me use the mobile version all the time. It's painful to read the help section on the non-optimized version since you have to scroll left and right and zoom over and over again. Also, when in the help center, you have the old non-optimized tabs above (Questions, Tags, Users, Badgers, Unanswered) that will bring you to the selected pages on the mobile version which makes navigation in the mobile site pretty weird.  tl;dr  Is there a complete mobile version coming up? Or at least a mobile optimized help center?
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I let my younger cousins play on my S4 from time to time, but now I have found that all the words they have used are the first to come up when I use my phone to text. It has gotten quite irritating. Samsung seems to have very hard to find settings compared to my old Sony Ericsson so I cannot find where to get rid of the word history typed onto my phone's keyboard.
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Google Analytics (and some log parsers) will give you breakdowns on usage of different browsers, different versions of those browsers and screen resolutions.  I'm just curious to know what SO users user. Any chance we could get some stats on that? You may view this as commercial information, in which case I understand (as i'ts relevant to marketing/advertising).  I'm also curious to know the # of users who read and/or post from mobile devices and if so which ones.  UPDATE: Please refrain from personal anecdotes ("I use..."). I'm interested in actual usage, not personal stories. Thankyou.