On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 23:25, Russell McOrmond wrote: > On 13 Oct 2002, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: > > > They had to use M$ products on the boxes as they needed localised > > office, browser, email clients etc. > > I got the impression that they did some of that localization themselves.
well, they had someone to that - some organisation in Chennai.. forgot the name - and that organisation developed only for win*. there was someone from that organisation in the bangalore workshop, and he told us that they are porting their apps to gnu/linux but i did not ask them whether it was going to be Free :) > > > That was quite easy in Win* because technology in Free Software is quite > > behind Win in terms of localisation, especially indic language support. > > Who did this work? Who funded it? Would this not be something useful > to get a grant for, and release freely to encourage ICT usage in India? > Actually, the technology behind Unicode compliant indic language computing is largely developed by M$, and naturally, these were implemented in M$ platforms first. for example, the Open Type Font technology was developed jointly by M$ and Adobe - and I am yet to get to know about the legal implications of this thing :S This technology was implemented in Pango recently, and QT is yet to implement indic OTF support -iti- sdg -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html
