[magick-users] Problems with Tamil labels

[Christian Lerrahn]

Hi,
I'm trying to write a Tamil label to an image using ImageMagick.
However, when I do e.g.

convert -background lightblue -fill blue -font TAMu_Kadampari -size
165x70 -encoding utf8 -gravity center label:தே label_gravity.gif

I get the 2 letters swapped around. This is wrong because the first
letter acts as a modifier to the second and they form a logical unit.
If the order is swapped, the modifier will instead modify the third
letter of this word. Can anybody tell me why this is going wrong and if
there is a way to fix it?

Cheers,
Christian

P.S.: This problem occurred with any UTF-8 font I tried.