On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 02:18:10 +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > One of the few questions that I invariably come across in in iLUG-Cal > meetings is - "When will we be able to write Bangla in OpenOffice ??" > > Well, recently, the Fedora developers released a patch that improves > the bridge between OpenOffice.org and IBM ICU (the library that does all > the heavy duty lifting of rendering complex scripts like Bangla), and I > managed to port the fixes that some of us at Ankur Bangla made to Pango > (used for rendering text in GNOME) to the ICU code. ... and the net > result of this is that you will be able to write Bangla in > OpenOffice.org. > > >From a really broken status (with respect to Bangla), OpenOffice.org is > now in such a state that it can even automatically remove the "matra" of > "ekaars" and "aikaars" occurring at the beginning of words. I plan to > add features such as spell checkers, support for Bangla date fields, etc > very soon. Sayam, any quick how to on how to compile by myself. I mean where can i get the patches etc. Want to give it a try if its possible. The screenshots looks really nice.
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