I got a tiny application. Just a thread. Here is the link. Let me try if it works, here is the link: http://pune.cdac.in/html/gist/down/download.asp?id=DebianLismEval.tar.gz
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Thomas Vazhappilly <[email protected]>wrote: > Dear Mahesh Aravind, > > Thanks for your detailed reply. > > Let me clarify about my requirement. Let me simplify it a little more. > > 1. I do not know the steps to display/edit some characters in Gnu/Linux > systems which I can easily display/edit in Microsoft Windows. I am a > GNU/Linux supporter and user for more than 6 years. Due to this ignorance in > this area, I am not able to completely be unplugged from MS Windows. If I > can get a clear know-how about this, I will get a clear exit from Windows. > It is my requirement. > > > I humbly request you to *STOP* referring to ASCII. Maybe you might want > to use an alternate term like "Plain text" file or something: > Agreed. > 2. To be specific, I am talking about the characters based on Indian > Script FOnt Code (INSFOC) which is generally described as ASCII fonts. > More read at: http://tdil.mit.gov.in/insfoc.pdf > > > >LOL ^^ (I wonder HOW one would create "ASCII" "Malayalam" files using > PM... but > anyway > 3. There are many editors for encoding INSFOC characters like ISM2000 > ISFOC Script Manager, LEAP etc. What I meant, I do not depend any such > editors. In stead I encode it directly to any editing programs such as > PM/OO.o or even Notepad.exe > > > >All GNU/Linux systems support almost all character sets _including_ ASCII. > You don't necessarily have to need ASCII to use Sribus or LaTeX or whatever. > 4. Just tell me how to do that. That is my question. I mean how to > display/input INSFOC characters. > > >Looks to me like a font problem. Are they Unicode fonts? > 5. It is not the font problem. In the screenshot image, I've clearly > written what is the ASCII (INSFOC) font and Unicode font. The problem font > is ISFOC font. > > Thanks in advance. > Thomas > > > > > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayalam_script) > > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Mahesh Aravind <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Buddy, >> >> >I have been searching for a method to input/display ASCII encoded >> Malayalam text >> > >> >in my GNU/Linux system. >> >> You gotta get a lot of things straight. >> >> 1) You *CANNOT* encode Malayalam in ASCII: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_encoding >> 2) ASCII doesn't support anything other than basic Latin: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII >> 3) Crude methods like ISCII are _obsolete_: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Script_Code_for_Information_Interchange >> 4) Unicode rules: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_10646 >> >> > >> >I created loads of such ASCII Malayalam files with Adobe Pagemaker 6.5 >> and >> >Pagemaker 7.0 in Microsoft Windows for my official purpose. I am not >> using any >> >> LOL ^^ (I wonder HOW one would create "ASCII" "Malayalam" files using >> PM... but >> anyway >> >> >third-party Malayalam editors like ISM Gist or Sreelipi etc. Instead, I >> can >> >remember most of the ASCII Key codes assigned to all Malayalam letters. >> >> Maybe you're trying to *display* Malayalam text in your console/terminal. >> >> > >> >To switch into Gnu/Linux completely, I need a solution about this ASCII >> texts. >> >> I humbly request you to *STOP* referring to ASCII. Maybe you might want to >> use >> an alternate term like "Plain text" file or something: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_text >> >> >If any GNU/Linux system supports ASCII files to input and display, I >> think I can >> > >> >use Scribus or LaTex to key-in and lay-out. >> >> All GNU/Linux systems support almost all character sets _including_ ASCII. >> You >> don't necessarily have to need ASCII to use Sribus or LaTeX or whatever. >> >> > >> >Look the following screenshot. I took the screenshot from OpenOffice Word >> >Processor in UBUNTU 10.04. Some Koottaksharangalare not displaying >> properly. But >> > >> >some displays well. >> >> Looks to me like a font problem. Are they Unicode fonts? >> >> > >> >But I am not able to input any Koottaksharangal. >> > >> >> You can't. The glyphs are auto generated in complex scripts like >> Malayalam. >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayalam_script >> >> >Eg:- To input the character "ksha" you need to hold down "alt" key and >> then >> >press 0163 calculater keys, and when you release the "alt" key "ksha" >> will >> >appear. But instead of "ksha", here in UBUNTU the following character >> displays >> >"ΔΆ" >> >> I sincerely believe you got this "wrong habit" from Windoze Charmap where >> you >> hold down alt, and press number to see a character. Points to be >> clarified: >> >> 1) Windoze uses brain-dead ANSI charset (Windows-1252 for the uninitiated) >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_1252 >> 2) GNU/Linux (mostly) prefers/uses/advocates Unicode >> >> The codepage in this case U+0163 is not in Malayalam range in UCS >> encoding; >> 0D00-0D7F is the Malayalam codepage range. >> >> > >> >Can anybody help me to fix this? Is there any remedy to key-in ASCII >> text in >> >Gnu/Linux. Even if ASCII is an obsolete method, there may be a provision >> for it >> > >> >in GNU System, I hope! >> >> There is no fix. Folks correct me if I'm wrong here. >> >> You are trying to find a solution to a problem that is not a problem at >> all in >> the first place. >> >> Do read, try to understand what you're dealing with. You need to input >> complex >> characters in OOo. That's automatically taken care of by the rendering >> engine: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_scripts >> >> Happy Hacking, >> Mahesh Aravind >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List >> http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ >> http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org >> #[email protected] > > > > > -- > go -> www.debianway.co.cc > -- go -> www.debianway.co.cc
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