On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 9:17 PM, saket sinha <[email protected]> wrote: > According to a study previously done, in order to implement Indian script in > an Linux based Operating system, a many to one font-glyph relation has to be > implemented. Please visit this link to verify my statement > http://www.geocities.ws/ratheeshvadhyar/ratheesh-thesis.pdf
The paper you cite is over a decade old. Much of the "plumbing" of Linux has undergone a bit of change since then. > In Linux console, only English, Latin languages etc. have been supported. Yes. Although I've never quite figured out the upside of having non-Latin language support, this has been the holy grail for a while. <http://indiclanguagecomputing.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/devanagari-support-on-gnome-terminal/> is one approach towards solving this. And yet, this is around 2 years old. > No support is their for Indian languages i.e.no Indian language keyboard > support is available inside the kernel.What I mean to say is that the key > buttons we press generate some encrypted code which we map to English > alphabets like A, B, C. I am not inclined to ask why the kernel should have language keyboard support. > Now suppose you want to enable Hindi keyboard. Instead of A you use some > Hindi alphabet. > Externally you would change the keypad 'A' to hindi alphabet but inside the > kernel you will have to map the encrypted code( that in generated on > pressing 'A' keypad) to that Hindi character. > > But this is possible with narrow Hindi alphabets which follow 1 to 1 > relation between font and glyph. > > Suppose you have a wide character, then the relation between glyph to font > is many to one relation. Now this implenataion is what we are trying to > implement in BOSS-MOOL project. I have provided a short objective of the project idea. I would look forward to your proposal. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> _______________________________________________ Project-ideas mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ankur.org.in/listinfo.cgi/project-ideas-ankur.org.in
