to qualify him
as a linguist?
(PS:- Ah. Well -- PV was refered to as a polyglot; not a linguist
- you win)
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``Those willing to give up a little liberty for a
little security deserve neither security nor liberty''
. :-( But of course, I do!!!
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L'homme est libre au moment qu'il veut l'etre.
* Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
with the
tounge touching the upper part of the palate?)
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to keep Indic rendering enabled by default.
I guess something like this is happening in Android too.
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``Those willing to give up a little liberty for a
little security deserve neither security nor liberty''
,
it boots up into Russian. I tried the Asian firmwares, only once - and
it booted up into Chinese/ Korean / Japanese / one of those East Asian
languages!!! ;-D
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End Users are just friends who haven't submitted a patch yet.
do
something to me for advising this). :-D
You can continue to be with the existing carrier.
Look around. If all else fails, ask google - the search engine; not
the customer support. (what a paradox). There are ways to root and
de-root the phone for warranty purposes.
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jitendra said on Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 12:46:13PM +0530,:
The official page of OpenType specification doesnot indicate license but
clearly states* All Rights reserved.*
That is the copyright notice on contents of the webpage; not the
specifications themselves.
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Sent
is that they have security
concerns about OTL tables in fonts (Google's webfont sanitiser was
stripping OTL tables from fonts served to Chrome for this reason,
as I understand; I'm not sure if this has changed yet).
Really?? Any pointers? I can't find any.
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of OpenType IP that is keeping
Google from implementing Indic support in Android.
But of course, I fail to understand several things. ;-D
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Learn from the mistakes of others.
You won't live long enough to make all of them yourself.
environment /
library / application whatever.
Obviously, I am an ignoramus. But my question remains - what
alternative to OpenType?
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It's not the software that's free; it's you.
Indic
scripts. That is it.
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not have the exact dates, but it
certainly was around 2002.
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Sent from my Computer. Running Debian GNU/Linux
enumerate them.
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Sent from my Computer. Running Debian GNU/Linux
, OpenType
Layout tables（GSUB, GPOS）can be used to handle Devanagari scripts.
While answers to both questions seem to be yes, any reason why you
want to create your own text layout application / library?
There are already enough libraries which do this out there.
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Buy Free
.
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It's not the software that's free; it's you.
, would it make any
differentce? There is no need, IMHO.
Philippe was suggesting otherwise, in spite of Govt. of India's
proposal.
Of course, the statement also implicitly assumes that unhindered
use is what is desirable. It may be in some situations, but not in
others.
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sign can be encoded. That's all.
+1, and a claim of IPR of any kind, and unhindered use are incompatible.
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character should be maintained with only the glyph changed,
It certainly not a glyph change. I would have agreed with you 3 weeks
back, but not now.
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A closed mouth gathers no feet.
suppose that publication in the gazette will be sufficient a license.
After all the European Commission does not claima a copyright on the
euro sign, does it? And the new rupee sign is meant for use, not for
hoarding or generating royalty income for the GoI.
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Michael Everson said on Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 08:34:24AM +0100,:
encoding. At least in the Indian Press they are talking about
Unicode and fonts and keyboards. :-)
I guess inclusion in the UTS would be taken as a privelege, and a
recognition of entry to the elite club.
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/news/economy/policy/Keyboards-handsets-to-help-pupularise-Rupee-symbol/articleshow/6174856.cms
Or other articles linked from this page:-
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/quickieslist/6174817.cms
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L'homme est libre au moment qu'il
, including names?
sarcasm
+1^100 to that.
Unicode should not keep such information secret.
What do you guys at Unicode think? That such information is a state
secret or what? Huh?
C'mon, out with it
/sarcasm
Sigh!! Some people never read replies. They just ask.
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the Government of India calls it) language is reasonably matured,
and people use it, without complaint.
Bengali does not look like an English name, but could be Englo-Indian
Does it matter?
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disappointing. ;-D
Why are you not interested in the difference between traditional and
modern Bangala scripts?
(joke)
hope this line of research will keep you tied down for long
(/joke)
You can start your quest from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali_script
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On a serious note -
1. Would a change of glypn / glyph shape be considered?
2. What are the origins of that character?
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Funny how people infriging commercial software licences are called
pirates, while huge companies infriging the GPL
Mahesh T. Pai said on Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 10:57:53AM +0530,:
On a serious note -
1. Would a change of glypn / glyph shape be considered?
2. What are the origins of that character?
I feel that an answer is important, because the code chart
specifically mentions this as the Indian
should
have two lines passing through?
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A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
'Rick McGowan' said on Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 10:08:32AM -0800,:
Please note that the freeze date for the next version of CLDR is January
15, 2004. All new data or defect reports for CLDR 1.3 must be submitted by
In a time wrap, eh?
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Michael Everson said on Fri, May 21, 2004 at 12:56:44AM +0100,:
http://www.unicode.org/iso15294. The Registrar thanks everyone who
I am getting a 404 here?
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Microsoft variation,
restricted to 65,536 characters?
Should'nt this be asked on one of Microsoft's forums??
I am interested in the answers, though.
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