Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Update on Mobile MediaWiki

2010-03-02 Thread Casey Brown
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: So, this is an easy one... help us get more traffic, make Wikipedia better accessible in your language. Another note: you can even adjust your wiki's settings so that all mobile users are automatically redirected

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Update on Mobile MediaWiki

2010-03-02 Thread Jyothis Edathoot
Srikanth, It may not be blindness, but the cost in migrating to fully support unicode. Regards, Jyothis. http://www.Jyothis.net http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis woods are lovely dark and deep, but i have promises to keep and miles to go before i sleep and lines to go before I press

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Update on Mobile MediaWiki

2010-02-24 Thread arjuna rao chavala
As Nokia uses QT, there may not many issues. Also andriid based phones also should not be a big problem. This is all based on my general understanding of the mobile technologies. It is the closed source vendors who have to be coaxed to make indic languages rendering work properly. Regards Arjun

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Update on Mobile MediaWiki

2010-02-24 Thread Hari Prasad Nadig
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:23 PM, arjuna rao chavala arjunar...@googlemail.com wrote: As Nokia uses QT, there may not many issues. Also andriid based phones also should not be a big problem. This is all based on my general understanding of the mobile technologies. It is the closed source

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Update on Mobile MediaWiki

2010-02-24 Thread arjuna rao chavala
Couple of points I read somewhere on the net are Blackberry 9000 series is unicode compatible. Android was tweaked to display Thai. Nokia's s60 platform/ sdk is supporting indic languages.. Regards Arjun On 2/24/10, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote: Also, some Samsung phones

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Update on Mobile MediaWiki

2010-02-24 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
So we need to get behind RIM to support Indic I guess ..Seing that India is one of their largest markets, thios should be obvious and common sense, but they're probably blind.. On 25 February 2010 08:29, arjuna rao chavala arjunar...@googlemail.comwrote: Couple of points I read somewhere on

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Update on Mobile MediaWiki

2010-02-23 Thread Jyothis Edathoot
It is from my iphone and the problems with rendering needs to be fixed by Apple. Gerard, I will send it to you on a seperate email. Regards, Jyothis. http://www.Jyothis.net http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis woods are lovely dark and deep, but i have promises to keep and miles to go

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Update on Mobile MediaWiki

2010-02-23 Thread Praveen Prakash
Srikanth Ramakrishnan wrote: But won't using Unicode fix it?? I didnt get that On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com mailto:gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, Can I have this screen shot and, can I have confirmation

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Update on Mobile MediaWiki

2010-02-23 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
So we need to catch the guys developin the software and bug them for this? On 24 February 2010 01:39, Jyothis Edathoot jyothi...@gmail.com wrote: Srikanth, Unicode is a standard. Rendering is the responsibility of the software. If the software follows the standard and renders it correctly,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Update on Mobile MediaWiki

2010-02-23 Thread Jyothis Edathoot
:) in a sense, yes. But as you know, It is not always feasible with large corporates and projects. This is not reaaly to put them at fault, but They have long term plans for each of their releases, which prevents them from running up to the speed of Unicode standards and renderings

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Update on Mobile MediaWiki

2010-02-23 Thread Praveen Prakash
Srikanth Ramakrishnan wrote: Won't using a Unicode font fix rendering issues? All Indian languages uses vowel symbols, ligatures (1,2,3). Font can just define them, But proper display is application's duty. -- ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Update on Mobile MediaWiki

2010-02-23 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Dang.. So, we have to run behind each guy out there. Isn't it possible to like create a library of codes, to display and relese it under the GNU-GPL or something ? Then maybe open source guys may take it in, and corporates may 'derive' thier works frm us? On 24 February 2010 08:05, Praveen