> From: Tom Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "Arindam Ghosh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Gora Mohanty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I work on internationalisation, and localisation issues, especially > > > as these pertain to Indian languages, and would be glad to help out > > > on this project. I hope that there is no need for me to become an > > > official mentor, as I cannot always guarantee having time available > > > when needed. > > > > That's great...:) Can you please provide some pointers regarding > > implementation of lingatures and vowel positioning of Indic scripts. I > > would like to study how much of these would be required pertaining to > > project. > > I wouldn't have thought you should have to worry about that much > really - if you've got valid UTF and you use an appropriate text > rendering library then that sort of stuff should sort itself out.
Rendering Indic characters into glyphs is not so straight forward -- the fonts require a lookup table or state machine to account for all the variations in character combination. For the web site, yes I think we can rely on the browser for this, with testing of course. For other pieces of the ecosystem, it will need more inquiry, if there's time this summer. I am aware that IndicTrans has been working on an open source solution, but not sure how much work it will be to integrate. Mikel
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