A journey for Assamese into Web Technology
Unicode
: Guwahati, 11 September, 2010
The guy was insulted by manybody. Because he was not an Engineer. He
approached all about his all tries, from Guwahati to USA living people.
Almost everybody suggested him to follow the guideline the senior
Engineers wroteed in their Thesis for their PhD. But he was not into
following somebody else, his mind was thinking to create something new.
He questioned himself, if other can be done, why not the Assamese?
Why should one have a font installed in his system folders, to display
Assamese texts in Website? If other things can be embeded into the
webpage, then why not the font? Yes, there was solution, font too can be
embeded. He tested normally avialble Assamese fonts, by all major
vendors of Indian IT companies. But he was not satisfied with anything.
Windows XP with Service Pack 2, has the inbuilt Unicode font for
Assamese text display i.e. Vrinda. The guy was not satisfied with the looks of
the Vrinda
font. He then studied about Font technology under GNU Projects, then he
started creating a font by his own which can display Assamese texts in
webpages with proper look, as well as no need to have any Unicode font
installed in users system to display the Assamese texts.
After trying for 3 years, he got something working solution for
Windows & MAC operating system pc. No Unicode font is necessary to
install in your system, just go on without having it.
Bellow is what he did:
পত্নী
আপুনি সপোনতহে তেওঁক ভালপায়
সেয়ে আপুনি শুই থাকে দেৰীলৈকে
ব্যস্ততাহীনতাতো ভাগৰি পৰে আপুনি
তেওঁ সুখত থাকক বুলিয়েই
অনিচ্ছাসত্বেও আপুনি বেচি থৈ আহে আপোনাৰ সততাক
নিজৰ মৃত্যুতকৈয়ো আপুনি বেছি ভয় কৰে তেওঁৰ বৈধব্যক
পুৰুষ হোৱাসূত্রেই আপুনি কেতিয়াও নাপাহৰে অতীতক
কলেজীয়া দিনবোৰ আপোনাৰ নষ্টালজিয়া
তেওঁক ভালপায় বাবেই
ঘৰৰ পিছপিনে আপুনি দুৱাৰ নাৰাখে
আপুনি নিশ্চিত হ’ব পাৰে খিৰিকিবোৰ খোলা থাকিলে
ক্রমশঃ আপুনি নিজকে নিচিনা হৈ পৰে
তেওঁ আপোনাৰ পত্নী
যাৰ বাবে আপুনি মিছা ক’বলৈ শিকে
(প্রকাশঃ ২৫ এপ্রিল, ২০০৪, ‘আজি’)
* Note: To test the Assamese display, temporarily remove all Unicode
fonts from your system’s font folder and keep those somewhere else. Then
browse this page again. We have tested his project in Internet Explorer
8.0 yet only. It is reported by him that testings for other browsers
are going on and completed soon. Please note that you may need to
refresh your browser for once or twice to see the Assamese text
properly.
http://www.timesofassam.com/2010/09/12/a-journey-for-assamese-into-web-technology/
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