While searching for a greek translator for Caminol10n, I got the following reply:
Hello Ludovic,I would have been happy to help if Camino lost an important 'feature'. It's inability to render Unicode characters properly using Apple's ATSUI/MLTE.
Camino still does not use ATSUI/MLTE and consequently Hellenic glyphs render poorly on the international version of OS X. Users of the 'patched' version (using either Rainbow Computers' semi-official GR-Update or the free X-Greek patch) can see properly rendered Hellenic characters. For many reasons, many hellenic-speaking users (including myself) prefer to use unpatched International versions of the OS and consequently Camino is inferior to other 'native' browsers such as OmniWeb and Safari that do use MLTE/ATSUI and render Hellenic properly. Yes, it is unfortunate and yes, it is annoying. Very.
Note that this flaw is also present on other browsers such as MSIE, all gecko browsers (Mozilla, Firefox, Camino etc.) and other non-Cocoa or non-Carbon/ATSUI/MLTE browsers.
Please let me finish this email by stating that I believe Camino is an excellent browser with innovative features and a promising future. However, I feel that the inabiliy to properly render Unicode (and specifically Hellenic) fonts make it largely pointless to bother localising it at this stage.
I forwarded the mail to my favorite project leader, so he could forward it to the foundation. I then decided to post the mail here in order to try to push bug #121540. I voted for the bug too. I know the issue is tricky but it would be nice if the mozilla developers would focus on fixing this bug.
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