indic-computing-devel

[Indic-computing-devel] NCST

[Tapan S. P. <ta...@ya...>]

Hi Guys,

Actually I sat with the lead developer of the NCST project, Keyur Schroff, who
is a young, nice and knowledgeable guy, for over an hour today.  He seems to
have done almost all of the work on the port himself.

Whatever the complaints, I must say his port is very robust,  user / programmer
friendly, and renders beautifully.

He has some very compelling reasons for doing things the way he did, which he
has been fighting out with the GTK/Pango people on his own.  I tend to agree
with his view to a certain extent.

Ill let him explain that, I told him to join the list.  He may also be posting
the project onto sourceforge, which would be great...

Here is my reply to the query earlier..

>
> Please explain why you have decided to store data in ISCII format in the
> RDBMS. Why not Unicode? I agree with you on Binary fields for we would
> not be able to sort, search and index.
>

Good point on storing data directly in Unicode.  The reason for that is that we
have been using CDAC GIST controls, much to our continual chagrine.
Unfortunately Mithi came out with their line too late for our proj (dev has been
going on for one year and is due to deploy within the month).  But we had such a
bad time w/ CDAC that we did pick up Mithi fonts and web apis very late in the
development, and they have worked great.

Actually though, unicode may not even have solved the problem b/c many RDBMS'
dont support Unicode yet either...

Best,
Tapan





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Re: [Indic-computing-devel] NCST

[Guntupalli K. <kar...@fr...>]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 19:24:13 +0530
"Tapan S. Parikh" <ta...@ya...> wrote:

> Hi Guys,
> 
> Actually I sat with the lead developer of the NCST project, Keyur
> Schroff, who is a young, nice and knowledgeable guy, for over an
> hour today.  He seems to have done almost all of the work on the
> port himself.
> 
> Whatever the complaints, I must say his port is very robust,  user /
> programmer friendly, and renders beautifully.
> 
 I agree ( after having gone through the opentype code ). This part
could be reused in Gtk/Pango, & Qt.

Also it can be used, if not the desktop , in niche segments, where
using KDE/GNOME for just indian lang support would be too heavy, eg.
kiosks 

> He has some very compelling reasons for doing things the way he did,
> which he has been fighting out with the GTK/Pango people on his own.
>  I tend to agree with his view to a certain extent.
> 
 Interested to hear, I too had couple of them.

Regards,
Karunakar