2010/8/28 Mahesh Aravind <[email protected]>: > Dear Thomas / Praveen, > > First, let me apologize if my mails offended / discouraged anyone. I gathered > the gist of the mail to be an attempt to input Malayalam to his wordprocessor, > and NOT a DTP application.
It is always good to apologise if you think your words hurt other than defending yourself. +1 > Praveen, being such an active figure in SMC/L18N, would be an authority here > and > I agree to his points! It is i18n for internationalisation and l10n for localisation. > Popular, but non-standard? I was distracted by his wordings "to enter Malyalam > to notepad" or something. You can, but won't it be displayed as mangled text? May be non standard, but if that is all the option available, we can't ask people to abandon it without a credible replacement. In web, we can clearly demand for Unicode because every web browser out there has support for Unicode. But for DTP we don't have even a single app with Unicode support. > I know. But would you encourage it "just to get work done"? I have no option till I can give them something that works. GNU was initially developed using Unix, not because Unix was Free, but you needed something to even develop a Free Operating system. > You've given an alternative at the end of your reply, viz, converting > ASCII-encoded malayalam fonts to Unicode? nopes, I was talking about converting data, not fonts. Unless we fix scribus, I don't see any other way out. > Flawed, I agree, but a standard nonetheless? Flaws could be worked around, I > believe, and people like you are working on it. You opt for INSFOC to Unicode? What use is a standard if you cannot use it? INSFOC is indeed a short term temporary project, but we need to fix scribus. >> dude, did you understand anything at all about the problem the >> original poster was trying to get help for before pronouncing him >> brain-dead and likes? > > From what I understood, he was trying to input a complex letter using its > number. I suggested he use an input method. Now, I realize he wants to use the > said font to his DTP application. Wrong assumptions? Any method using to input characters is an input method, even entering raw code directly is an input method. > Pardon me if I sounded rude. But then again, my mistake. No offence taken. :) >> If you can use Open Office word processing application for your needs, >> use Unicode. For your existing documents you can use Payyans to >> convert them to unicode. For new text one option to have ASCII text >> is to convert it back from Unicode using Payyans. Type your text as >> unicode using any standard input methods available in GNU/Linux and >> convert it to ASCII. >> >> http://wiki.smc.org.in/Payyans But if you still want to use values like 0163 try ibus-rawcode https://fedorahosted.org/ibus-rawcode/ But I'm not sure if it will work or not. -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് You have to keep reminding your government that you don't get your rights from them; you give them permission to rule, only so long as they follow the rules: laws and constitution. _______________________________________________ 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]
