At the risk of beating a dead horse.. Sinnathurai Srivas <avarangal at hotmail dot com> wrote:
> 3/ Other systems with low resolution and limited bandwidth can immediately > use reformed characters. For a Tamil spending half an hour will make sure > that one can understand reformed Tamil. Hence, say instead of thousand of > codes being transmitted for text messaging a picture of say "b" all you need > is to send one code for the character "b". (consider the cost of bandwidth > for sendin a picture and sending a code for a character.) It is not possible > for all languages be rendered within the mobile phone itself, unless u store > millions of MIBs within the mobile phones. Hence, Tamil will take the > character transmission route and some languages may take picture > transmission route.) Sending and displaying Tamil characters as bitmaps (which, BTW, would take a few thousand bytes, not "millions of MIB") is not the only alternative to reforming the script. You could build Tamil rendering logic into cell phone displays instead. It ain't THAT hard. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California
