I am Debayan Banerjee. I am 3rd year engineering student at NIT Durgapur. I have experimented a lot with L10N work and hence with all kinds of different input methods. I was interested in finding the simplest possible indic setup on a windows box coz people in my college mostly use windows. I, with a lot of help from Amitakhya Phukan, the Assamese language maintainer of Gnome, finally settled with a combinbation of Baraha+Poedit+Windows east Asian language pack. Ofcourse, the simplest input method i found was phonetic. On Linux i was using Yudit. To slightly drift off-topic, translation as it exists now is too complicated. It has to be a web interface based exercise so that people simply log on to a webpage and start typing. The client side script on the webpage must take care of the transliteration. I have tried persuading people to translate, and its very difficult the way it is right now. I understand that it causes some problems with credits being lost, but that is a problem that has to be ironed out. I just wish there were a webpage, where you could upload .po files, make changes, and then redownload it. I did suggest Mr. Amitakhya to put up a Pootle based webpage, and he is working on it i think. In any case we plan to set one up in the future.
Regards, Debayan Banerjee http://debayan.wordpress.com On 15/05/2008, Muralidhar Kamidi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi peekay, > > Thanks for the mail. > > I am Muralidhar based in a remote village of Andhrapradesh. > > I have very limited knowledge of both Linux and input methods: much of > it gathered from books and magazines: both online and offline. I am only > an end user and not an expert in either area. However SCIM is what I use > on my desktop. I speak Telugu, and had seen at least 3 keymaps for the > language: inscript, RTS (Rice Transliteration Scheme) and Phonetic. I > prefer RTS as it allows me to type in English and maps the text into > Telugu. > > About me: > > I am a mech. engineer by education (B.Tech.) and a teacher by profession > (earlier taught Physics, Thermodynamics, Engineering Drawing at several > levels). My last two jobs were with HCL and CSS group: the former as a > tech support exec and the latter as a Linux Trainer (it is here that I > realised that a desktop user experience is not sufficient to train > corporate trainees on enterprise apps). At the moment, I am looking to > work from home as a freelance writer and trainer. > > That's it. > > Cheers, > Muralidhar > > > On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 05:29 +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > > peekay wrote: > > > > > i am based in calcutta .. working on implementing debian based > BharatOSS > > > by CDAC > > > age 56 yrs .. expert in windows .. now working on debian .. especially > > > for making input > > > in local indian languages much easier .. by changing the keymap to a > > > simpler one than inscript > > > > This is an interesting work PK (where have you been all this while by > > the way ?). Do you have any documents as to what your observations are > > on the current input methods and what would work out to be a simpler > > input method ? > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dgplug.org/listinfo.cgi/users-dgplug.org > -- BE INTELLIGENT, USE LINUX
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