Re: [Ankur-core] Liaison member of unicode consortium

2004-07-03 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
-core mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bengalinux-core -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings Training. Attend

Re: [Ankur-core] firebird screenshot of ankur bangla webpage

2004-07-26 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
and firefox :-) Sadly, these don't work on Linux yet. yeah. Probably Mozilla 1.8/1.9 will have support for the CTL in Linux. As far as I understand, currently Pango cannot do justified text, and that is causing a lot of problems :-( -sdg- -- Sayamindu Dasgupta ( ) [http://sayamindu.randomink.org

[Ankur-core] Re: [Freebangfont-devel] announcement/RFC: new fonts

2004-08-05 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 02:03 -0500, Deepayan Sarkar wrote: I recently (re)discovered some nice features of fontforge (formerly pfaedit) which significantly reduces the development time required to create new fonts (at least compared to the way I used to do it). Basically this consists of

[Ankur-core] Mozilla+Pango

2004-08-10 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hi all, I grabbed the latest Mozilla from CVS and compiled it with --enable- pango. Here's the result. http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/images/mozilla_pango.png -sdg- -- Sayamindu Dasgupta ( ) [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] HS^X'ux!rq'Vtx PouJdJp5C}jEZZ'ywJ)jwEa 0

[Ankur-core] Call for some graphics job

2004-10-11 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hello all, Jamil has been working on a KDE based live CD, and now I'll start bnhaath-mara/bn on that. It would be great if someone can provide an unified set of splash screens (for KDE as well as for the kernel boot splash) and background images (wallpapers). -thanks- Sayamindu

[Ankur-core] Indic support in Magic point

2004-10-26 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hi, Just noticed that the latest version of MagicPoint supports rendering of Indic scripts (via the m17n library). Download it from http://www.mew.org/mgp/ -thanks- Sayamindu --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express

[Ankur-core] New collection of Free Indic OTF fonts

2004-11-10 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hi, Check out the fonts from http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/SRPMS/ttfonts-indic-1.6-1.src.rpm -sdg- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld

[Ankur-core] http://www.fdicts.com/addmenu.php

2004-12-08 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Check out http://www.fdicts.com/addmenu.php -sdg- -- All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it

[Ankur-core] [Fwd: [Indic-computing-users] linux in Indian languages (fwd)]

2004-12-13 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Forwarded Message From: Frederick Noronha (FN) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Shiv Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Indic-computing-users] linux in Indian languages (fwd) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 22:26:15 +0530 (IST) A friend forwarded me this. I don't have any more

[Ankur-core] QT and GPOS tables

2004-12-30 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Does QT support GPOS tables ?? -sdg- -- All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.

Re: [Ankur-core] Gnome 2.10 Release date

2005-01-01 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
[CC-ing GNOME Translation list] On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 15:26 +0600, Jamil Ahmed wrote: January 24th 2.10.0 Beta 1 (2.9.90) tarballs due. UI Freeze March 9th: 2.10.0 release! Currently Bengali is 67.13% http://l10n-status.gnome.org/gnome-2.10/index.html Umm... I have already started

[Ankur-core] [Fwd: [indic] Indic sorting ordering]

2005-01-06 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Forwarded Message From: Mark Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [indic] Indic sorting ordering Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 10:53:31 -0800 We have gotten several bugs on Indic collation order (used for sorting, searching, and matching), and would like to get more

[Ankur-core] GRIND updates

2005-01-07 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hi all, Today, Soumyadip Modak and myself managed to create the initial Component for Indic language support in GRIND - and as a result - we had the GRIND installer[1] running in Bangla :D. http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/images/grind_bn_installer.png Expect more updates in the next few

Re: [Ankur-core] bangla spell checker for thunderbird

2005-01-07 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 09:00 -0500, Kaushik Ghose wrote: Hi ! I see that thunderbird/firefox use the myspell spell checker (http://dictionaries.mozdev.org/) at http://lingucomponent.openoffice.org/ .There are instructions at http://lingucomponent.openoffice.org/dictionary.html on how to

Re: [Ankur-core] OpenOffice.org - split matra sign issue solved

2005-01-09 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 17:03 +0600, Omi Azad wrote: You have to check the Init shapes. Cause I found Init shapes are not used in the PDF. err... the subject line says split matra sign issue resolved. Didn't claim that rendering was perfect:) -sdg- Omi

Re: [Ankur-core] OpenOffice.org - split matra sign issue solved

2005-01-09 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 17:03 +0600, Omi Azad wrote: You have to check the Init shapes. Cause I found Init shapes are not used in the PDF. Hi, Instead of backporting stuff from recent versions of ICU, I ported the fixes made by Taneem to Pango code (since Pango Indic code has been derived from

[Ankur-core] Support for Bangla numerals

2005-01-15 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hi, Just got Bangla numerals working on OOo. http://randomink.org/testbn_features.pdf Enjoy, -sdg- -- All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they

Re: [ooo-bn-trans] Re: [Ankur-core] Support for Bangla numerals

2005-01-15 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 18:11 +0600, Jamil Ahmed wrote: - Original Message - From: Sayamindu Dasgupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, Just got Bangla numerals working on OOo. http://randomink.org/testbn_features.pdf which version of OOo? or it's a patched version? :-) Patched. -sdg

[Ankur-core] l10n - the MSFT way

2005-01-29 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
http://weblogs.asp.net/michkap/archive/2005/01/26/360685.aspx -sdg- -- All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open

Re: [Ankur-core] Bangla text to speech synthesis system-UI problem

2005-02-06 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 11:40 -0800, Amir Rahat wrote: Hi we r making a User Interface with java for the BTTS.But the problem is we have to manupulae the consonant clusters to pass them to the festival core engine.we know in unicode the consonant clusters are rendered at run time so no

[Ankur-core] Re: [ooo-bn-trans] Update on Taneem Bhai

2005-05-19 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 21:34 +0600, Omi Azad wrote: Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: OK - I don't know about Taneem bhai, but I at least have a habit of sleeping at odd hours. Please continue trying - and I would advise the other members to do so. He He. It cost's only BDT 7/min to make

Re: [ooo-bn-trans] Re: [Ankur-core] Update on Taneem Bhai

2005-05-22 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 19:57 +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: Omi Azad wrote: Don't we have any other option without Taneem Bhai's sign? How is this requirement relevant ? The JCA has Sayamindu's signature, it has mine and I believe Jamil's - is there any special need for him to sign

[Ankur-core] The Mozilla Issue - Part I - bn_BD and bn_IN

2005-05-23 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hi all, I have been watching the flame war erupt on Mozilla bugzilla on bn_BD, bn_IN, and related stuff, and I think that things have started to spin out of control. Please, please - read this mail before continuing the flame war. I have been with Ankur since the very first day, and let me put

[Ankur-core] The Mozilla Issue - Part II - What is an Ankur Project ?

2005-05-23 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hi all, This is my second mail on this topic - and this is probably the most difficult to handle :). Until now, there has been no formal definition of what an Ankur Project is. However, after seeing the recent flame wars, I think we should move towards some kind policy defining what an Ankur

Re: [Ankur-core] The Mozilla Issue - Part II - What is an Ankur Project ?

2005-06-11 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 20:13 +0600, Progga wrote: All your assumptions are okay IMO. Since The Mozilla Bangla Translation Project doesn't fullfill these criterion, I never considered it part of Ankur and never bothered a bit about it. I am urging the Ankurians to totally forget it ( of

Re: SPAM-LOW: [Ankur-core] Thunderbird -- BanglarBird

2005-07-02 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 22:15 +0530, Golam Mortuza Hossain wrote: On 7/2/05, Omi Azad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It should be BaazPaakhi... Yep!! It sounds really cool !! :-) +1 Thanks, Sayamindu --- SF.Net email is sponsored by:

[Ankur-core] [Fwd: [Loc-dev] [Fwd: [LRC Press Release] LRC - X: 9 Weeks To Go]]

2005-07-13 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Forwarded Message From: Simos Xenitellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: AsiaSource Localisation [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Loc-dev] [Fwd: [LRC Press Release] LRC - X: 9 Weeks To Go] Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 20:52:06 +0100 Localisation Research Centre (LRC,

Re: [Ankur-core] Re: [ooo-bn-trans] Font for Bn OOo

2005-08-07 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Sat, 2005-08-06 at 15:48 +0600, Jamil Ahmed wrote: - Original Message - From: Jamil Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 12:05 PM Subject: [ooo-bn-trans] Font for Bn OOo Hello, We need to submit a patch for

[Ankur-core] Indic Printing in Mozilla

2006-09-09 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
It works!! http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/2006/09/09/indic-printing-it-works-in-mozilla/ :-) -sdg- - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with

[Ankur-core] Fwd: [l10n-dev] English-Hindi Dictionary Plugin for OpenOffice, org 2.0 or later

2007-03-07 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
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Re: [Ankur-core] bugs in pango

2007-04-05 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
issues - they are more complicated and have been there for a long time :-(. -sdg- -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's

Re: [Ankur-core] bugs in pango

2007-04-08 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
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Re: [Ankur-core] bugs in pango

2007-04-08 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
4.2.3 seems to have the bug fixed, as Khanda-ta is defined as a consonant. -sdg- -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's

[Ankur-core] [Proposal] Changing the assignment of ZWNJ in Probhat

2007-04-25 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
to hear from others on other possible assignments as well. Thanks and have a nice day, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2

[Ankur-core] Text Layout Summit 2007

2007-07-06 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hi all, The Text Layout Summit 2007 concluded recently at Glasgow (parallel to Akademy), and the material generated at the meeting is available at http://unifont.org/TextLayout2007/ Cheers, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings

Re: [Ankur-core] Fwd: Firefox Padma :: Support for almost all Bengali News Sites (India + Bangladesh)

2009-02-16 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bengalinux-core -- -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC

Re: [Ankur-core] Fwd: Firefox Padma :: Support for almost all Bengali News Sites (India + Bangladesh)

2009-02-16 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
seems insulting and that is why I'm replying back on the list. On 16-Feb-09 10:02 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: Dear Omi, Please try to be polite and respectful to others on this mailing list. The mail you just sent, unfortunately, cannot be considered to be polite from any angle what so

Re: [Ankur-core] [X-Post]Bengali to English transliteration anyone?

2009-04-19 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
://www.dealloc.org/~mublin/iso15919.py.html However, this is not restricted to the 26 characters, but definitely less than 500 :-) -sdg- -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] -- Stay on top of everything