On 2/23/11, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote:
Dear Anivar:
There are Four Components
Thanks for the addendum - how important is the rendering engine in the
scheme of things? Is work on that pretty much done or are there issues
there too?
If your language have some errors in
Great discussion, but I wonder why I didn't see any real, easy, doable,
inexpensive, quickfix solution put forth that every Indian on the internet
can begin using immediately to get around the Unicode Vs custom Fonts issue.
So here's some from me:
1. Quick copy-paste, working with a net
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Nikhil Sheth nikhil...@gmail.com wrote:
Great discussion, but I wonder why I didn't see any real, easy, doable,
inexpensive, quickfix solution put forth that every Indian on the internet
can begin using immediately to get around the Unicode Vs custom Fonts
This discussion is not at all about input methods. I do not know why a
sudden comparison between transliteration vs. InScript came here.
Looking at all the solutions you provided, let me ask one thing. Have you
really actively contributed/contributing to any Indian language wikipedia. A
survey
On 2/24/11, Nikhil Sheth nikhil...@gmail.com wrote:
Great discussion, but I wonder why I didn't see any real, easy, doable,
inexpensive, quickfix solution put forth that every Indian on the internet
can begin using immediately to get around the Unicode Vs custom Fonts issue.
Hey,
What you are
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Anivar Aravind
anivar.arav...@gmail.com wrote:
The Discussion here was not only about Input methods. It is about
Encoding , Rendering Fonts, which is the underlying technology which
enable input methods to work
Also just a friendly request to understand
On 24 February 2011 09:15, Nikhil Sheth nikhil...@gmail.com wrote:
Great discussion, but I wonder why I didn't see any real, easy, doable,
inexpensive, quickfix solution put forth that every Indian on the internet
can begin using immediately to get around the Unicode Vs custom Fonts issue.
On 24 February 2011 09:21, sankarshan foss.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote:
And, looking at all this discussion I now wish that I submitted a
'state of Indic' paper at some conference happening currently ;)
Oh but you should! I would learn much from it and I am sure everyone
else will learn
Two things I meant to add:
1. The eGov standards body for India has recently notified Unicode
5.1.0 as the default standard for all eGov applications henceforth.
(Sadly, their website is DoA - http://egovstandards.gov.in/) I am
hopeful that this will be the start of some initiative within
On input methods - is there anything of a best practice or even a
Government notification about an input standard?
In Tamil Nadu, the govt recommends and endorses the Tamil 99 keyboard
layout.
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.comwrote:
Even though Central
On 24 February 2011 10:12, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote:
Even though Central Government has adopted Unicode as the encoding standard,
the case is not the same with most State Governments. As far as I know only
few state goverments (Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Kerala,...) had adopted
In West Bengal there are no Govt announcement regarding Unicode and KB
layout.Our Govt are still in the ASCII era in all department. But they
adopted Unicode by *Society for Natural Language Technology Research* (NLTR)
(http://www.nltr.org/) and released Baishakhi Linux
Dear sankarshan
Initial license of raghu font series was confusing. But later they
changed it to gnu gpl, as per the insistance of RK joshi. Gnu gpl
licensed fonts were released as a part of Indix project of cdacmumbai.
Anivar
On 2/24/11, sankarshan foss.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu,
On 24 February 2011 11:36, Anivar Aravind anivar.arav...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for those links. I am aware about that. But not get enough time
to read it yet. But are you sure, it specified unicode 5.1 . I am
curious becuase new rupee symbol getting encoded only in unicode 6.1.
Usually govt
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote:
2. Given that we publish in Indian languages, using Unicode fonts are
the only way to achieve cross-platform interoperability and is a
global standard.
3. Given India's push towards copyright reform for the print
On 22 February 2011 22:29, Santhosh Thottingal
santhosh.thottin...@gmail.com wrote:
I think you have some confusion on Unicode and Fonts. Let me try to
clarify in simple words.
Yes - I did! And thank you for such a detailed response.
To see if I have understood this - there are three
On 2/22/11, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote:
On 22 February 2011 22:29, Santhosh Thottingal
santhosh.thottin...@gmail.com wrote:
I think you have some confusion on Unicode and Fonts. Let me try to
clarify in simple words.
Yes - I did! And thank you for such a detailed response.
Hey Everyone:
This one isn't directly connected with Wikimedia projects but is,
IMHO, one element of any Wikimedia project in India - Unicode.
I'm trying to bring together some ideas as to why Unicode is
important, what the upsides and downsides are. My initial thoughts:
1. While there are many
On 17 February 2011 11:29, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote:
I'm trying to bring together some ideas as to why Unicode is
important, what the upsides and downsides are. My initial thoughts:
A few other points that I read here: http://anandabazar-unicode.appspot.com/
Data usage: Use
On 17 February 2011 12:35, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.com wrote:
I have some points to share, but got to go back to work now.
Can I get back on this later?
Sure, Sundar! No hurry.
Thank you.
Best,
Gautam
http://social.prathambooks.org/
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