> (BTW, there is also some good points there that relate to recent > discussions on the lists. All similarities are accidental!) >
Roozbeh, Maybe you'll find these articles from the Weft forum interesting. They also relate to the recent discussion. (Nice to hear there are languages worse off than Persian!) --------------- To: Microsoft WEFT users community <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Daily digest for Microsoft WEFT users community Hindi character spacing problem >>From: ObsessedWithHindi >Message 9 in Discussion >A lot of developers enaged in developing websites in indic languages, are >facing the same problem: spaces between letters. We have been following >the messages posted to this community and answers provided to them by >different people, but unfortunately, nobody seems to have the final >solution to this problem. People who have somehow solved this problem, >are trying to cash in on it. Why on earth nobody with a solution comes >forward to solve this problem of thousands of Indian languages >developers? Why those who have somehow found a solution forget the fact >that even Microsoft has provided this tool for free? Its unfortunate that >these developers are not helping others with their solutions and are not >helping the Hindi language in becoming a true Net friendly language. >After this charged speech, could I expect someone to help me remove those >ugly spaces between my Hindi characters? I use Weft 3, Kruti Dev 020 >font, Internet Explorer 6, encoding x-user-defined, on IIS 5.0. I would be quite thankful. >>From: ObsessedWithHindi >Message 9 in Discussion >Prabudh, your reply was quite explanatory and enlightening. however, i >don't think anybody would doubt the fact that Unicode is the road to >future for all languages, for obvious reasons. Still, if it's not getting >popular among the Indian language developers then it is either the market >or the Indian government to be blamed. While our users are not ready to >adopt new ways, the government is not concerned about the need of the >hour: to promote and affect standardisation at different levels in the >Indian languages computing world. Every developer is going his own way >when it comes to development in Indian langauges. People are still coming >up with tools with options to use old keyboard layouts (I have seen >applications that offer 15-20 keyboard layouts) and 7-bit, 8-bit fonts. >Even Microsoft is doing the same in its Office XP. We are teaching people >to type in Hindi by actually typing in English (transliteration method). >Why should users not be taught to type in Hindi itself and using only >one, universal method? Where will the horses running in different >directions lead the cart to? Is there no force on the earth to direct and >enable developers to move towards a properly defined, future-oriented and >logical way! As far as I know, there is only be one regulatory power in >the country and that is the government. It should ensure that only >Inscript Keyboard layout and Unicode fonts are used by the developers and >should also come out with goodies for developers such as freely >distributable unicode fonts etc. And we, developers, may also try to make >our own contribution to the process, if we can. Baalendu Dadhich ----------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ FarsiWeb mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/farsiweb
