On Friday 15 November 2013 18:33:19 Anivar Aravind wrote:
> Sorry for the typos** earlier
> 
> 
> Dear all ,
> 
> Some happy news for all of us .
> 
> 
> The School curriculum steering commitee of  Kerala Govt's SCERT(State
> Council Educational Research and Training)  decided  3 major points in our
> interest yesterday
> 
> 1. SCERT is improving text book printing infrastructure by shifting from
> Adobe 's softwares to FOSS based XeTeX and free licensed fonts.
> 
> 2. They will shift from ASCII to Unicode . This will also help in universal
> access for differentially abled via technologies like Text to Speech even
> in Malayalam Language .
> 
> 3. The books will be licensed under  CC-BY-SA .
> 
> Official Order is still pending. But I am posting this since it is already
> in media reports.

Great news.
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