On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:34, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote:
Arjuna makes a good point on language support. As for the data costs,
don't some providers (I know MTS does) provide access to Wikipedia for
free?
Have you used MTS free Wikipedia? I overheard they are falsely
I agree with Srikanth on this issue.
I have been using Wikipedia on my phone for over a year and a half, and have
even edited several articles from my phone.
On 26 October 2010 11:30, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:34, Gautam John
Data charges definitely is coming down and will be coming down more with the
3G war in India.
The support for other languages and unicode should be improved in the
mobiles.
I have tried ml wikipedia in the Nokia E series with MiniOpera browser. It
was really a bad experience for me. The fonts
On 26 October 2010 11:30, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote:
Have you used MTS free Wikipedia?
I have to confess, I have not. Only going by the ads. The other thing
is lack of Unicode support. Andriod doesn't support Unicode, IIRC.
Thank you.
Best,
Gautam
Hoi,
I doubt very much that Android does not support Unicode. It may not have the
fonts that you need.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 26 October 2010 15:57, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote:
On 26 October 2010 11:30, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote:
Have you used MTS free
On 26 October 2010 19:32, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:
I doubt very much that Android does not support Unicode. It may not have the
fonts that you need.
Very possible I might be wrong but I did find this:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=5925
Thank you.
Hoi,
In this thread you find your answer:
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Comment 4 http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=5925#c4 by
petrosyan http://code.google.com/u/petrosyan/, Jan 08, 2010
Android 1.5 supports embedded CSS fonts, and you can use any unicode
font you want to.
For a demo of embedded CSS
On 26 October 2010 19:44, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:
So Android uses Unicode fonts, fonts may not be available.. Just complain
LOUDLY and PUBLICLY and together that not supporting fonts for Indic
languages is not acceptable in India (and outside of India grin ).
Thanks,
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote:
So Android uses Unicode fonts, fonts may not be available.. Just complain
LOUDLY and PUBLICLY and together that not supporting fonts for Indic
languages is not acceptable in India (and outside of India grin ).
Ramesh,
Could you try http://ml.m.wikipedia.org/ from your phone? (Of course, it'll
still need the fonts.)
To my knowledge, Malayalam Wikipedia is the only Indian Wikipedia to have a
mobile interface (I could be wrong).
For Tamil Wikipedia, only the final steps are pending.
- Sundar
That
Rendering of Malayalam script is very bad. Same might be the case with most
of the other Indian scripts. (Devanagari might have reasonable support) So
this site is of not much use to Malayalam as of now, even though we are
regularly updating it.
We cannot expect much as of now since the majority
Could you try http://ml.m.wikipedia.org/ from your phone?
I have tried this also. It has the similar issue of the fonts. The chillus
of malayalam is another issue while displaying.
I could read it, but as far as the usability, it is of no use.
regards
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 9:49 PM,
On Tuesday 26 October 2010 10:09 PM, BalaSundaraRaman wrote:
I'm able to read Tamil text on Opera Mini browser on my Nokia N72 (with some
difficulty).
From: Shiju Alexshijualexonl...@gmail.com
Rendering of Malayalam script is very bad. Same might be the case with most
of
the other Indian
I have tried Malayalam Wikipedia on my android 2.1 mobile. Rendering is very
poor :( . Instead of letters it just shows the squares. But on Opera browser
you can see the letters (except unicode 5.1 chillu lettes (atomic chillu
letters)) by doing the hack mentioned on this blog
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