On 30 Nov 2002, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:

> On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 04:04, Ashis Ranjan Biswas wrote:
> > Hi,
> > U can go for Ileap-office developed by CDAC
> > 
> 
> well, AFAIK, iLEAP does not work with non-winblows platforms
> secondly, it is a proprietary software
> thirdly, it does not conform to the Unicode standard, and should be
> avoided like plague.

  Thanks for this note.  I am a strong supporter of Free Software.  If it
doesn't exist with a FLOSS license and runs on fully Free Software
platforms like GNU/Linux, I don't bother recognizing that it exists at
all.

  It is my understanding that OOo will be the first full featured 
word-processor with Indian language support.  I'm just looking forward to 
full Bengali support.


> most probably, OOo beta has bangla rendering support - but I have not
> personally checked it out
> -sdg-
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