On 10/18/05, Abhay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gora Mohanty wrote: > > Please don't go back, or suggest going back to such > > retorgrade solutions. This kind of non-standardized, > > do-your-own-thing in the name of expediency is > > exactly the reason why Indian language computing is > > in the sorry state that it is. Besides, Shusha is > > "non-free", and ties one in to the particular font. > > I don't know what your views are about Hindi computing and I am no > authority to speak about it either but imho Hindi in itself is like an > orphan child who has no one to take care of. I am not so sure about that about hindi, but yes one doesn't do a lot of localized computing as one studies english as a language for computability. > > When I mention Shusha (I am no developer, nor any marketing person for > the fonts/firm involved), I just want to make more and more people to > move on to writing in Hindi without going through the pain of keymap. I > myself started to do lots of my correspondence with government offices > in Hindi after I found Shusha and the main reason was the ease of typing. I think using unicode for interlanguage communication allows for multiple languages supported and rendered in the same document. As for the keyboard interface. One can always get the easily learnable inscript which works pretty similarly for many other indian languages too and available by default in major linux desktop environments. One could use Scim and Itrans sequences as talked my raju in a earliar lug meet [ link here http://www.linux-delhi.org/cgi-bin/anCMS/download.cgi?action=fileDownload&dId=92] . One could also use Bolnagri phonetic layout which I talked about in my previous language.
> > When I first started to write in Hindi (around 2 years back), I also > wanted to stick to unicode. I even went out to buy a Hindi Keyboard and > the only manufacturer I found to be making them was TVS but none of > their dealers had them readily available. On writing to them directly, I > was told to pay in advance and wait for 15 days to get the same. > Solution? Print out the keymap then look for each letter first on the > paper and then on keyboard which took really long to get any kind of > work done. Why ever look for a hindi keyboard whe you can just remap the same on you english keyboard . I suppose one does most of the command and interface interaction in english for now. cheers Vivek _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
