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From: Frederick N. (FN) <fr...@by...> - 2003-06-30 07:20:32
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- [from pa...@ya...] Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 23:49:46 +0500 From: "Dr. Sarmad Hussain" <sar...@nu...> Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing at National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (www.nu.edu.pk) is pleased to announce the beta release of character-based Nafees Naskh Open Type Font for writing Urdu in Naskh script with full aerab support based on Unicode standard. This font is developed according to calligraphic rules, following the Lahori style of Syed Nafees Al- Hussaini (Nafees Raqam) (http://www.geocities.com/sajjadkhalid/Profiles/Nafees.html ),who is one of the finest calligraphers of Pakistan. Guidance and calligraphy of basic glyphs for the font has been provided by Syed Jameel-ur- Rehman. He is pupil of Syed Nafees Shah and Hafiz Syed Anees-ul- Hassan. Nafees Naskh OTF contains approximately 500 glyphs, including less than 10 ligatures. This font is operable on all platforms supporting OTF specifications. Aerab will allow urdu words to be fully expressed. Demo PDF file is attached. This work has been partially funded through Localization R&D Grant by Microsoft Pakistan and Small Grants Program by AMIC ,IDRC, APDIP UNDP. Nafees Naskh allows Urdu computing on Microsoft 2000, NT, XP, Java (JDK1.4), Unix and Linux platforms. This font enables desktop and internet publishing, and electronic communication in Urdu using existing software (without any plug-ins) supporting OTF specifications, e.g. MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook (email), Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Mozilla, MS PowerPoint. This font may also be used to develop database and other applications with Urdu interface using MS.NET and Java (JDK 1.4). Nafees Naskh is freely downloadable from www.crulp.org or www.nu.edu.pk. Please send comments and report bugs at Naf...@nu.... Best regards, Nafees Naskh OTF Team Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences Lahore, Pakistan _______________________________________________ s-asia-it mailing list s-a...@li... http://mailman.apnic.net/mailman/listinfo/s-asia-it |
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From: Frederick N. (FN) <fr...@by...> - 2003-06-29 16:08:48
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Could someone offer some help pls? FN On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, narayanan wrote: > Dear Sir: > > Could you help me locate where I can get a Malayalam Computer - > mainly and mostly to be used as an electronic typewriter with > storage facility. This is to be used by one of the > writers/reporters > > Thank you. > > CV Narayanan > > RESTLESSLY > ___________________________________________________ > Click below to experience Sooraj Barjatya's latest offering > 'Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon' starring Hrithik Roshan, > Abhishek Bachchan & Kareena Kapoor http://www.mpkdh.com > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frederick Noronha (FN) | http://www.fredericknoronha.net Freelance Journalist | http://www.bytesforall.org http://goalinks.pitas.com | http://joingoanet.shorturl.com http://linuxinindia.pitas.com | http://www.livejournal.com/users/goalinks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- T: 0091.832.2409490 or 2409783 M: 0 9822 122436 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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From: <ve...@vs...> - 2003-06-27 20:03:28
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Can someone send me the complete article? Difficult to make a comment on what Malhotra said about IndLinux without knowing his background, which unfortunately has been snipped. What I can say is that at IndLinux.org, our objective is to ensure that this technology reaches the common man, woman and child in India. That is what makes us different from most other organizations working on language technologies. We'll reserve our comments until we have read the full article. Venky www.indlinux.org fr...@by... wrote >From Mahesh T Pai <pai...@vs...> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Frederick Noronha (FN) said on Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 01:00:30PM +0530,: > Nice, but not good enough, says Vijay Kumar Malhotra, a former director for (snip) > to the core of computers rather than just the face. The approach by the guys at indlinux.org takes language far more 'deeper' into the OS than this. Language enabling is much more than mere translation of help files, enabling fonts, and input methods. The KBIPS is directly involved with FSF - India (at least, that is what I understand - about FSF - India's involvement) for enabling Malayalam on GNU/Linux systemms. > And with Word too, not just Hindi as an option but with Hindi built into the > core system. So that right from the menu bar with its options of 'file', > 'view', 'help' and what not, everything will be in Hindi. ditto. > Now his team is working to introduce sorting facilities in Hindi, according > to the Hindi alphabet. I think this is already available in at least Malayalam. I am not sure aout Hindi. > auto-correct facility and templates already in Hindi. > Malhotra is in London these days to take possible uses of Hindi further. One (snip) > That is taking him to Hindi learning centres in Britain to study needs, and Why?? Have the they stopped using hindi North of the vindhyas??? > "The new applications will also be a major new tool for e-governance in > India," Malhotra says. "Programmes for promoting this have been launched in > Haryana, Uttaranchal, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. This is a big new > field." > The Indian government is tying up with Microsoft to develop Hindi further in > Microsoft systems, he says. Aha. Pity. Will the govt. pay a fraction of what they pay this monopoly to the indlinux team? I AM NOT RELATED WITH THE INDLINUX TEAM. But, I believe that the indlinux team has spent far less during its entire existence that what that company has spent on a single foreign jaunt for its team leader/s. Not that I grudge the individuals' benefits; but I cannot help reacting when the govt. subsidises efforts, fruits will be controlled by private corporates while giving a cold shoulder to efforts which would be under public control, like the KBIPS' project. -- +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ Mahesh T. Pai, LL.M., 'NANDINI', S. R. M. Road, Ernakulam, Cochin-682018, Kerala, India. http://in.geocities.com/paivakil +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100006ave/direct;at.asp_061203_01/01 _______________________________________________ Indic-computing-users mailing list http://indic-computing.sourceforge.net/ Ind...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/indic-computing-users [Other Indic-Computing mailing lists: -devel, -standards, -announce] |
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From: Frederick N. (FN) <fr...@by...> - 2003-06-27 18:39:58
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>From Mahesh T Pai <pai...@vs...> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Frederick Noronha (FN) said on Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 01:00:30PM +0530,: > Nice, but not good enough, says Vijay Kumar Malhotra, a former director for (snip) > to the core of computers rather than just the face. The approach by the guys at indlinux.org takes language far more 'deeper' into the OS than this. Language enabling is much more than mere translation of help files, enabling fonts, and input methods. The KBIPS is directly involved with FSF - India (at least, that is what I understand - about FSF - India's involvement) for enabling Malayalam on GNU/Linux systemms. > And with Word too, not just Hindi as an option but with Hindi built into the > core system. So that right from the menu bar with its options of 'file', > 'view', 'help' and what not, everything will be in Hindi. ditto. > Now his team is working to introduce sorting facilities in Hindi, according > to the Hindi alphabet. I think this is already available in at least Malayalam. I am not sure aout Hindi. > auto-correct facility and templates already in Hindi. > Malhotra is in London these days to take possible uses of Hindi further. One (snip) > That is taking him to Hindi learning centres in Britain to study needs, and Why?? Have the they stopped using hindi North of the vindhyas??? > "The new applications will also be a major new tool for e-governance in > India," Malhotra says. "Programmes for promoting this have been launched in > Haryana, Uttaranchal, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. This is a big new > field." > The Indian government is tying up with Microsoft to develop Hindi further in > Microsoft systems, he says. Aha. Pity. Will the govt. pay a fraction of what they pay this monopoly to the indlinux team? I AM NOT RELATED WITH THE INDLINUX TEAM. But, I believe that the indlinux team has spent far less during its entire existence that what that company has spent on a single foreign jaunt for its team leader/s. Not that I grudge the individuals' benefits; but I cannot help reacting when the govt. subsidises efforts, fruits will be controlled by private corporates while giving a cold shoulder to efforts which would be under public control, like the KBIPS' project. -- +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ Mahesh T. Pai, LL.M., 'NANDINI', S. R. M. Road, Ernakulam, Cochin-682018, Kerala, India. http://in.geocities.com/paivakil +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ |
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From: Jaco A. <jai...@fs...> - 2003-06-27 15:46:36
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Hello Karunakar, The *Government Distro* is based on Debian. In the future we hopefully will have versions in other distros, as long as they are free...! ;-) The only requisite for any software component of this *Government Distro*, to be included in this *Government Distro*, is that it is *already* being used by any Public Sector Government in the world. So for example, it is composed by www.linex.org , which is Debian and Gnome based, and being used today by the Public School system in the state of Extremadura, Spain, in 60,000 schools!. :-) It also has other software components from Brasil and Argentina, and we will like to include some other software components from India and China if possible for the first release... A software component can be code like a router (Ututo R router, being used in Argentinian schools), customization features like the one *LinEx* has, or even application packages, like Government purchasing, Accounting, Tax collection, which as for today we do not have anything, but hopefully through the time, with the collective cooperation of several hackers working for free Governments projects, we may have a collective plataform which may fill the basic needs of many governments worldwide. We are releasing the first version until August, but anyone can have access to todays version if he/she can help our developing team who is leaded by Marlon Dutra. Best, Jaco > On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 15:29:01 +0530 (IST) > "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fr...@by...> wrote: > > > Can someone on Indic Computing or Indian-eGov or even > > bytesforall_readers help with such work on > > Indianising this distro? Sounds interesting. FN > > > > If you could give more detials on the distro then I can tell what can > be done in it -esp what all packages it includes. A copy to test would > be ideal! > > <snip> > > > > To obtain a full version of _the_ Government Distro visit > > > > www.fsc.cc/governmentdistro and register for it. > > The link is inaccessible! > > Regards, > Karunakar > > -- > A Reasonable man adapts himself to the world > An Unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to himself > So all progress in the world depends on the Unreasonable man - GB Shaw > > --------------------------- > * Indian Linux project * > * http://www.indlinux.org * > --------------------------- > > Consortium Development Free Software Consortium FSConsortium.com |
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From: Guntupalli K. <kar...@fr...> - 2003-06-27 15:19:04
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On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 15:29:01 +0530 (IST) "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fr...@by...> wrote: > Can someone on Indic Computing or Indian-eGov or even > bytesforall_readers help with such work on > Indianising this distro? Sounds interesting. FN > If you could give more detials on the distro then I can tell what can be done in it -esp what all packages it includes. A copy to test would be ideal! <snip> > > > To obtain a full version of _the_ Government Distro visit > > > www.fsc.cc/governmentdistro and register for it. The link is inaccessible! Regards, Karunakar -- A Reasonable man adapts himself to the world An Unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to himself So all progress in the world depends on the Unreasonable man - GB Shaw --------------------------- * Indian Linux project * * http://www.indlinux.org * --------------------------- |
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From: Frederick N. (FN) <fr...@by...> - 2003-06-27 11:07:55
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Can someone on Indic Computing or Indian-eGov or even bytesforall_readers help with such work on Indianising this distro? Sounds interesting. FN On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Jaco Aizenman wrote: > ,da...@bu..., pe...@fs... > CC: ma...@de..., mic...@ci... > Bcc: vb...@fs..., sl...@fs...,dal...@e-...,jo...@fs..., > den...@ho...,and...@de..., A.M...@ed.... > ga...@li...,ge...@sa..., pro...@ra..., > jg...@gs... > Subject: Indiand and Chinese developers welcome - Draft of FSC Press > release - Re: Marie > X-Mailer: NeoMail 1.25 > X-IPAddress: 196.40.3.47 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > Fred, we cannot send you yet the *Government Distro* because it will be > available just after we finish some internacionalization features that > will maximize its efficiency in multilanguage countries like India, or > different typos like China. > > Thats why we are looking for the *Red Flag* developers, and we will > apreciate also if you can contact us with Indian developers specialized > on adapting GNU/Linux Debian to the different Hindu languages. > > Marlon who receives a copy is the *Government Distro* developers leader, > and Michelle, who also receives a copy, is the *Technical Government > Body* Coordinator. You may tell Cesar that Marlon and Michelle are > Brasilians.... ;-) > > Marlon is coming to Costa Rica in August because he is giving a > presentation of the *Government Distro* to Costa Rican Government officials. > > Please also find below the last version of the *Government Distro* press > release that will be announced next week. > > FSC PRESS RELEASE > ======================================================= > Free Software Distribution for Governments > > A Free Software Package known as the "Government Distro" was launched > on July 1st by the Free Software Consortium (FSC), a global organization > dedicated to the promotion and commerciali_s_ation of Free Sofware. > > The Government Distro is a compilation of programs widely used by > the public sector in Brazil, Argentina and Spain. It contains the > GNU/Linux Operating System, an Office-like suite called Open Office, email > and instant messenger, a calendar, a database, a web browser application > and many other programs. > > All these applications have been used and tested previously in dozens > of Latin American and European users, in order to certify their > functionality. They have all been designed by highly talented > programmers _from_ (all) around the world. > > The Government Distro is meant to be a common free government system > platform for governments worldwide, both server and > client-side. > > Therefore, "the Government Distro is a big step towards the implementation > of Free Software in the public sector around the world", says Marie > Lopardo, Communications and Marketing (Government Body) Coordinator. > > > To obtain a full version of _the_ Government Distro visit > > www.fsc.cc/governmentdistro and register for it. > > All the programs in _the_ Government Distro are user-friendly and > some have been in use since 1999. > > _The_ Free Software Consortium is offering technical assistance for > Government Distro users. > > For more information, please email gov...@fs... > ================================================================= > > Consortium Development > Free Software Consortium > FSConsortium.com -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frederick Noronha (FN) | http://www.fredericknoronha.net Freelance Journalist | http://www.bytesforall.org http://goalinks.pitas.com | http://joingoanet.shorturl.com http://linuxinindia.pitas.com | http://www.livejournal.com/users/goalinks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- T: 0091.832.2409490 or 2409783 M: 0 9822 122436 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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From: Frederick N. (FN) <fr...@by...> - 2003-06-27 08:43:37
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Taking Hindi to the core of computers By Sanjay Suri, Indo-Asian News Service London, June 27 (IANS) It was nice, wasn't it, to use the Devnagari script on Microsoft Word? Nice, but not good enough, says Vijay Kumar Malhotra, a former director for official languages with Indian Railways, and now in pursuit of taking Hindi to the core of computers rather than just the face. Malhotra, now language consultant to Microsoft for developing applications in Hindi, is taking Hindi to more than the Word programme. He is working with his team to make all applications in the Office XP system in Hindi. That means Word, Excel and Power Point, all with Hindi integrated into the system. And with Word too, not just Hindi as an option but with Hindi built into the core system. So that right from the menu bar with its options of 'file', 'view', 'help' and what not, everything will be in Hindi. Now his team is working to introduce sorting facilities in Hindi, according to the Hindi alphabet. Malhotra, who has worked on these programmes earlier with York University in Britain and with the University of Pennsylvania, has developed an auto-correct facility and templates already in Hindi. The through-and-through Hindi composition is coming up in the Office 2003 programme shortly, where "the whole environment will be in Hindi", Malhotra told IANS. "Now we will be able to handle all data applications in Hindi," he says. "Like dictionary, thesaurus, indexing and other functions like this." Malhotra is in London these days to take possible uses of Hindi further. One is to develop models available on computer to teach Hindi to students learning it as a new language. That is taking him to Hindi learning centres in Britain to study needs, and ways of meeting those needs. "The new applications will also be a major new tool for e-governance in India," Malhotra says. "Programmes for promoting this have been launched in Haryana, Uttaranchal, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. This is a big new field." The implications will be that use of computers will gain new scope in villages where the English interface for primary functions was a restriction. "This will open the gates for e-governance and e-learning," says Malhotra. He is also studying the Cobuild project developed in Birmingham University that takes millions of words in text and draws from them principles of usage. Teaching material is developed on that basis. The Indian government is tying up with Microsoft to develop Hindi further in Microsoft systems, he says. --Indo-Asian News Service |
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From: Frederick N. (FN) <fr...@by...> - 2003-06-26 19:01:17
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________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 1 Date: 25 Jun 2003 19:44:29 +0530 From: Kiran Kumar Chava <ki...@in...> Subject: Re: Telugu fonts.. Hi Kalyan, We are using pothana fonts only on Linux also. Some time back Akruti fonts are released but then when I tried to download them they were not there(later I came to know that it is due to some license problems from the site owners. ) Translation, We are eagerly waiting for volunteers. You are welcome into translation effort. Up to now we translated only frequently used words in gnome. (which is called glossary). This u can find in files section of yahoo group gnome_telugu_translation. Once it come to usable state(I mean at least some people should review it and suggest modifications then we can proceed to further translation. ) Have a look at groups.yahoo.com/group/gnome_telugu_translation. We are using yudit editor. (Even it has a little problem in zero glyph rendering). Thanks and regards Kiran Kumar Chava -- ***************** Kiran Kumar Chava ****** / ***** 30C Cunningam Road ***** /_ _ ***** Hewlett-Packard ISO **** / / /_/ **** Bangalore 38 ***** / ***** Tel : 91 080 2051189, Telnet : 847-1189 ****** / ****** ch...@hp... || ki...@in... ***************** i n v e n t hp for India & India for hp Cooool!!! FOR WHAT?? ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 20:40:19 +0530 From: "Pramod.R" <pra...@ya...> Subject: Re: Telugu fonts.. > Have a look at groups.yahoo.com/group/gnome_telugu_translation. > We are using yudit editor. (Even it has a little problem in zero glyph > rendering). Then it is a good time to test kbabel with qt 3.2 & report bugs/issues with the telegu rendering to trolltech. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ |
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From: Dr. U.B. P. <pav...@vi...> - 2003-06-17 04:53:41
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The final version of Unicode 4.0 is out (www.unicode.org). There is also a chapter from the forthcoming book on Unicode 4.0. Please check your(our) languages. For ex., they are suggesting of using ZWJ to solve the issue of arkavattu in Kannada. I have posted this on kannada mailing list. -Pavanaja ---------------------------------------------------- - Dr. U.B. Pavanaja Editor, Vishva Kannada World's first Internet magazine in Kannada http://www.vishvakannada.com/ Note: I don't worry about pselling mixtakes |
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From: Frederick N. (FN) <fr...@by...> - 2003-06-17 03:52:35
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Thanks Madhukar. Sharing you ideas with the IndicComputing mailing list on sourceforge.net FN On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Madhukar N. Gogate wrote: > Hallo, > I saw part of your work about scripts on a website > Have you thought about an optional Roman script > for Indic languages? You may visit my website. > --- Madhukar N Gogate ( visit website updated 13 > April 2003) http://education.vsnl.com/mngogate -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frederick Noronha (FN) | http://www.fredericknoronha.net Freelance Journalist | http://www.bytesforall.org http://goalinks.pitas.com | http://joingoanet.shorturl.com http://linuxinindia.pitas.com | http://www.livejournal.com/users/goalinks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- T: 0091.832.2409490 or 2409783 M: 0 9822 122436 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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From: Frederick N. (FN) <fr...@by...> - 2003-06-17 03:52:30
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1. Mozilla indic support via sun.unicode.india-0 encoded fonts
From: alo...@so...
2. Take a look at this....
From: Gopi Garge <go...@ex...>
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 09:26:22 -0600
From: alo...@so...
Subject: Mozilla indic support via sun.unicode.india-0 encoded fonts
Hi list,
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166520
says:
> On Redhat 8, what you have is Xft-build of Mozilla that doesn't
> make use of hindi shaper even when CTL is enabled. Currently,
> hindi shaper is only used for Mozilla-X11core (plain gtk without
> Xft or Xlib). When you run Mozilla-Xft with the environment variable
> GDK_USE_XFT set to 0, you'll see that Devanagari gets rendered
> properly assuming that you have X11 core fonts with SunIndic encoding.
Ok, I'm using Mozilla 1.4RC1 on Redhat 8 via gnome.
I installed the SunIndic encoded fonts (saraswati) in
/usr/local/share/fonts/bitmap ,
[alok@localhost bitmap]$ more fonts.dir
2
SaraswatiBold24.pcf.gz
-cdac-saraswati-bold-r-normal-devanagari-25-240-75-75-p-240-sun.unicode.indi
a-0
SaraswatiNormal24.pcf.gz
-cdac-saraswati-medium-r-normal-devanagari-25-240-75-75-p-240-sun.unicode.in
dia-0
[alok@localhost bitmap]$ xset q
Keyboard Control:
auto repeat: on key click percent: 0 LED mask: 00000000
auto repeat delay: 500 repeat rate: 30
auto repeating keys: 00ffffffdffffbbf
fa9fffffffdffdff
ffffffffffffffff
ffffffffffffffff
bell percent: 50 bell pitch: 400 bell duration: 100
Pointer Control:
acceleration: 2/1 threshold: 4
Screen Saver:
prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes
timeout: 0 cycle: 0
Colors:
default colormap: 0x20 BlackPixel: 0 WhitePixel: 16777215
Font Path:
/home/alok/.gnome2/share/cursor-fonts,unix/:7100,/usr/local/share/fonts/bitm
ap,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,/usr/X11R6/
lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,/usr/share/fonts/indic/OpenType,/home/alok/.gnome2/share
/fonts
Bug Mode: compatibility mode is disabled
...
So this directory /usr/local/share/fonts/bitmap is in my fontpath now.
Now using a terminal session i do
$ export GDK_USE_XFT=0
$ /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla #Mozilla 1.4 RC 1
However, even now the devanagari pages are rendered incorrectly.
Firstly, in
Edit->Preferences->Fonts For->Devanagari, the options Serif thru Monospace
don't have the Saraswati font listed. Nor in proportional.
Fonts for Unicode doesn't have them either.
And the rendering is done using the listed fonts, ie if I change the font
from
here, the font gets changed in the rendered page as well, and I know that it
is
not saraswati font.
So what' wrong? Doesn't the env variable setting work? If not, how can I
test
this feature? If yes, is there some tweaking required with respect to the
FontPath?
I posted this to news:netscape.public.mozilla.i18n , waiting for a reply
from the i18n'ers there.
In the meantime if any of you have already tried this, it'll be a great help
to know of your experiences.
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 16:55:08 +0530 (IST)
From: Gopi Garge <go...@ex...>
Subject: Take a look at this....
http://www.iiitb.ac.in/R&D/iiit-b%20Report%20on%20Indian%20Language%20Software%20Market%20(MAIT%20funded)%20Executive%20Summary%20Feb%202000.htm
--Gopi Garge
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From: Pramod.R <pra...@ya...> - 2003-06-16 14:57:04
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http://www.iiitb.ac.in/R&D/iiit-b Report on Indian Language Software Market (MAIT funded) Executive Summary Feb 2000.htm |
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From: Frederick N. (FN) <fr...@by...> - 2003-06-14 08:00:37
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------------------------------ Message: 10 Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:53:32 +0530 From: Shashank Ashtikar <sha...@hb...> Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] KDE indianization To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" <lin...@mm...> Message-ID: <200...@hb...> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > We are trying to indianize KDE. We have translatted po file (of kedit) but > after making mo file and putting it in appropriate dir Take a look at i18n.kde.org You should get enough information there. I am also interested in the same area but I would like to tranlate it for marathi. take a look at indic-computing mailing lists at sourceforge.net they should be able to respond better to your querries. Shashank ------------------------------ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers End of Linuxers Digest, Vol 2, Issue 19 *************************************** -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frederick Noronha (FN) | http://www.fredericknoronha.net Freelance Journalist | http://www.bytesforall.org http://goalinks.pitas.com | http://joingoanet.shorturl.com http://linuxinindia.pitas.com | http://www.livejournal.com/users/goalinks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- T: 0091.832.2409490 or 2409783 M: 0 9822 122436 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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From: Frederick N. (FN) <fr...@by...> - 2003-06-14 07:44:51
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Thanks a lot Irfan. Permit me to share your posting with the Indic and BytesForAll mailing lists. FN On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Irfan Khan wrote: > dear tee emm and fred, > > i read fred's posting on pluc on urdu computing, in which tee emm has > mentioned his wish: a freely downloadable urdu wordprocessor. this > needs not only a R-->L or bidi editor/WP but also a font with > necessary glyphs. the logic of joining could be part of the font, or > hardcoded in the editor/WP. > > > here is a free solution for microsoft windows 2000. (not sure about > windows 98, which is more common among the endusers). > > abiword [http://www.abisource.com/ ] is an open source bidi word > processor for windows and linux, etc. which works well with urdu > locale (in windows 2000: control panel --> regional options; select > urdu). for fonts, there are a couple of choices. several fonts > shipped with windows 2000 are unicode 3 compliant, and contain almost > all urdu characters. alternatively download additional arabic fonts > (that include urdu characters) from microsoft > http://office.microsoft.com/arabicregion/Downloads/2000/arafonts.aspx > . other free unicode fonts that include urdu are: > > - Nafees Naskh *recommended* > http://www.crulp.org/nafeesNaskh.html > [crulp is also working on a nastaleeq font, funded by apdip] > > - titus cyberbit > http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/unicode/tituut.asp > > - Urdu Nastaliq Unicode > http://www.arbornet.org/~tabish/u-font/ > [not good looking; nastalique has to be very good...] > > - tehreer/ paktype > http://www.zaban.net/paktype/ > > - asiatype's urdu font (used in, for example, bbcurdu.com) is also > good, to be combined with abiword > > > other interesting solutions are: > > - unipad [http://www.unipad.org/main/ ] (free version has a limit of > 1000 words) implements a unicode solution in a neat, integrated > program. worth downloading, just to check. > > - openoffice.org [http://openoffice.org/] supports bidi. an arabic > version is also to be released. > > more later, > > irfan > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frederick Noronha (FN) | http://www.fredericknoronha.net Freelance Journalist | http://www.bytesforall.org http://goalinks.pitas.com | http://joingoanet.shorturl.com http://linuxinindia.pitas.com | http://www.livejournal.com/users/goalinks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- T: 0091.832.2409490 or 2409783 M: 0 9822 122436 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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From: Frederick N. (FN) <fr...@by...> - 2003-06-14 07:43:51
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Could someone help? FN > ________________________________________________________________________ > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 23:32:13 -0700 (PDT) > From: senthil kumar <lin...@ya...> > Subject: fonts in console > > > > i have red hat linux 7.1 and i had installed ttf fonts(tamil ttf fonts > akruti1.ttf ) in my system .these fonts i am using in different places > but i am not able to use the fonts in the console why? > > i went to the console then went to fonts menu there r a lot of fonts > but my fonts are noy in the list of fonts why? > > is there any special type of fonts that i have to install in the system > to view them in console ? > > senthil -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frederick Noronha (FN) | http://www.fredericknoronha.net Freelance Journalist | http://www.bytesforall.org http://goalinks.pitas.com | http://joingoanet.shorturl.com http://linuxinindia.pitas.com | http://www.livejournal.com/users/goalinks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- T: 0091.832.2409490 or 2409783 M: 0 9822 122436 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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From: Dr. U.B. P. <pav...@vi...> - 2003-06-13 03:38:49
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<?xml version="1.0" ?><html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> <p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt"><b>The Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator</b></span></font></p> <p><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Ever wanted to quickly and easily define your own keyboard layout for a language Microsoft doesn't support? Or define your own keyboard layout so you can quickly and easily enter your favorite symbols with a simple keystroke? Well, want no more: the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator is here! </span></font></p> <p><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/msklc.mspx"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><u>http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/msklc.mspx</u></span></font></a></p> <div align="left"><br/> </div> <div align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">Of course, this is MS Windows only!</span></font></div> <div align="left"><br/> </div> <div align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">-Pavanaja-----------------------------------------------------</span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">Dr. U.B. Pavanaja</span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">Editor, Vishva Kannada</span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">World's first Internet magazine in Kannada</span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">http://www.vishvakannada.com/</span></font></div> <div align="left"><br/> </div> <div align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">Note: I don't worry about pselling mixtakes</span></font></div> <div align="left"></div> </body> </html> |
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From: Sayamindu D. <unm...@So...> - 2003-06-11 03:35:55
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-----Forwarded Message----- From: Kaushik Ghose <kg...@wa...> To: Bangla-Font <fre...@no...> Subject: [Freebangfont-devel] dw bangla page Date: 10 Jun 2003 17:08:55 -0400 Hey, take a look at http://www.dwelle.de/bengali/Welcome.html I think they are using bangla opentype fonts and unicode the opentype font is from cdac -kg _______________________________________________ Freebangfont-Devel mailing list Fre...@no... http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freebangfont-devel -- Sayamindu Dasgupta <unm...@So...> Madness Unlimited |
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From: Frederick N. (FN) <fr...@by...> - 2003-06-09 04:01:22
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--__--__-- Message: 8 Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2003 09:07:30 +0530 From: SRIKANTH NS <sri...@vs...> To: il...@ae... Subject: [Ilugc] Browsing vernacular sites-thatstamil.com Hi All Browsing www.thatstamil.com or www.thatsmalayalam.com in RH7.3 using konqueror or netscape or opera does not render the fonts at all. In netscape, under edit--preferences-Appearance-fonts--I have enabled "Allow documents to use other fonts, including dynamic fonts". But still I am unable to view the fonts clearly. Is there any localised howto as to how to do this? I copied all the fonts in windows-fonts directory to linux - my home directory (though I am strictly not supposed to do this) and did mkfontdir and other commands to point to the fonts directory. Still I am unable to view the above sites in any of the above browsers . Pl help. N S Srikanth --__--__-- _______________________________________________ ilugc mailing list il...@ae... http://www.aero.iitm.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc End of ilugc Digest |
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From: <pra...@ya...> - 2003-06-08 09:30:56
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A good no. of Glossaries & previously done translations are available here: http://kannada.sourceforge.net You need nudi font for the kgp glossary & opentype font for the gnome glossary. -pramod. ________________________________________________________________________ Missed your favourite TV serial last night? Try the new, Yahoo! TV. visit http://in.tv.yahoo.com |
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From: <tbd...@se...> - 2003-06-07 07:10:38
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Dear change makers=2E=2E :) We are looking for appropriate terms and phrases for the commonly used computer related phrases, in Kannada=2E If you know of any available phrase maps, or have lists you use, please help by publishing or making it avaiable to others/us=2E=20 For example, what is an understandable, acceptable "translation" (phrase to use in Kannada) for these: download file upload file post a message send a message respond remark or comment view domain category category tree community path browse search search criteria logical operators keywords user id sign in log in sign out log out cancel register password log sitemap accesslevel help editor owner author comma separated values database=20 table field template terms and conditions open source indic=20 website webpage internet world wide web files attachments MB GB Mhz GHz etc=2E=2E thanks for any pointers and converging discussions :) d=2E dinesh@servelots=2Ecom +91 80 6762963=20 -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web=2Ecom/ =2E |
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From: Dr. U.B. P. <pav...@vi...> - 2003-06-07 03:18:57
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<?xml version="1.0" ?><html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> <p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">From VOLT Discussion group (http://groups.msn.com/MicrosoftVOLTuserscommunity/)</span></font></p> <p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">-Pavanaja</span></font></p> <p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">-----------------------</span></font></p> <p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">From Paul Nelson, Microsoft Typography:</span></font></p> <p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">I have completed some minor adjustments to the USP10 to correct Bengali functionality and will be sending it to people to beta test as soon as I finish verifying some conjunct forms for the Vrinda font. </span></font></p> <p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">If anyone is interested in participating with a private beta of Bengali, please send mail to me directly. </span></font></p> <p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">Please note that the behavior set out in Unicode 4.0 defines a requirement to get the reph form by typing: Ra + halant + ZWJ as the first part of the cluster. </span></font></p> <p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">Paul</span></font></p> <div align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">-----------------------------------------------------</span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">Dr. U.B. Pavanaja</span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">Editor, Vishva Kannada</span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">World's first Internet magazine in Kannada</span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">http://www.vishvakannada.com/</span></font></div> <div align="left"><br/> </div> <div align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">Note: I don't worry about pselling mixtakes</span></font></div> <div align="left"></div> </body> </html> |
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From: Frederick N. (FN) <fr...@by...> - 2003-06-04 20:13:51
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Knoppix has been converted to Malayalam. Which language are you doing? FN On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, prajnya01 <pra...@ya...> wrote: > hello friends > I am prajnya doing project at iiitb hubli about knoppix in indian > language. I am learning linux for my project. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > blo...@ya... > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://in.docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frederick Noronha (FN) | http://www.fredericknoronha.net Freelance Journalist | http://www.bytesforall.org http://goalinks.pitas.com | http://joingoanet.shorturl.com http://linuxinindia.pitas.com | http://www.livejournal.com/users/goalinks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- T: 0091.832.2409490 or 2409783 M: 0 9822 122436 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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From: ravikant <rav...@sa...> - 2003-06-04 11:53:29
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Dear Venky and other friends Sarai is indeed planning to start work on Urdu .kde with the help of Ara= sh=20 Zeini of Linux Iran who worked with the community on Farsi localisation. = The=20 Farsi version should work for urdu as well, with a little modification,=20 technically. Linguistically, Hindi too can borrow a lot once Farsi gets=20 rendered in Urdu.=20 There is plenty to download from this site for Linux users who want to do= more=20 work or derive from the existing works. http://www.linuxiran.org/ If you wish to read an interview I did with Arash You can check the Sarai= =20 Reader 03: Shaping Technologies: http://www.sarai.net/journal/03pdf/282_289_azeini.pdf the title of which is significant: 'No Other Hand Will Scratch my Back=20 Enjoy and cooperate ravikant On Wednesday 04 June 2003 02:20 am, Venky Hariharan wrote: > Ravikant of Sarai recently mentioned that they are working on Urdu. > > Venky > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Frederick Noronha (FN) <fr...@by...> > To: Tee Emm <tm...@su...> > Cc: <ta...@sa...>; <Ind...@li...= t> > Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 3:04 AM > Subject: [Indic-computing-users] Farsi, Urdu, Bangla... and neighbourho= od > news > > > News from the South Asian region. Might be of interest to those worki= ng > > on similar language issues in India. Is anyone working on Urdu here? = FN > > > > On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Tee Emm wrote: > > > Farsi and Urdu are very similar - so much so that an urdu-wala can = go > > > on reading farsi until he hit a few words that is foreign to him an= d > > > the same goes for farsi-walas. Parsnigar is a persian wordprocessor > > > which can be used for writing urdu with the right font. Bad news th= at > > > parsnigar is a commercial product. I read a recent writeup from you= in > > > Spider's June Edition in which you've mentioned an effort by BD exp= ats > > > in California to unleash a freely downloadable Bangla Word Processo= ry. > > > I've been advocating something similar since June 2001 > > > (http://pakistan.blogspot.com/2001_06_24_pakistan_archive.html#4298= 878) > > > but haven't been very lucky. > > > > > > Frederick Noronha (FN) wrote: > > > >This is from the LinuxIran mailing list. Just thought of forwardin= g it > > to > > > > >PLUC. Is there some similarity between the languages? FN > > > > -- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------= ---- > > Frederick Noronha (FN) | http://www.fredericknoronha.net > > Freelance Journalist | http://www.bytesforall.org > > http://goalinks.pitas.com | http://joingoanet.shorturl.com > > http://linuxinindia.pitas.com | http://www.livejournal.com/users/goal= inks > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------= ---- > > T: 0091.832.2409490 or 2409783 M: 0 9822 122436 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------= ---- > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The b= est > > thread debugger on the planet. Designed with thread debugging feature= s > > you've never dreamed of, try TotalView 6 free at www.etnus.com. > > _______________________________________________ > > Indic-computing-users mailing list > > http://indic-computing.sourceforge.net/ > > Ind...@li... > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/indic-computing-users > > [Other Indic-Computing mailing lists: -devel, -standards, -announce] > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The bes= t > thread debugger on the planet. Designed with thread debugging features > you've never dreamed of, try TotalView 6 free at www.etnus.com. > _______________________________________________ > Indic-computing-users mailing list http://indic-computing.sourceforge.n= et/ > Ind...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/indic-computing-users > [Other Indic-Computing mailing lists: -devel, -standards, -announce] |
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From: ravikant <rav...@sa...> - 2003-06-04 11:45:16
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This is great news. Actually in the snapshot the bbc site looks better an= d=20 sharper than ever - it did never look so clean, not even on latest IE! Th= anks=20 Frederick. Cheers ravikant On Wednesday 04 June 2003 03:22 am, Frederick Noronha (FN) wrote: > _______________________________________________ > > KDE improves Indic language support > > The forthcoming KDE 3.2 desktop will have improved support for Indic > languages, with Devanagari, Bengali and Tamil already tested. Syriac, > Tibetan, Khmer and others are also expected to work, but the KDE projec= t > needs people who understand these languages to help the translation and > localisation teams by providing feedback. If we'll soon have KDE in > Tibetan, will there be any human languages that free software doesn't > support? > > http://dot.kde.org/1053201681/ > _______________________________________________ > > Please send your news snippets to da...@li... > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUser mailing list > Lin...@ww... > http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/linuxuser > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The bes= t > thread debugger on the planet. Designed with thread debugging features > you've never dreamed of, try TotalView 6 free at www.etnus.com. > _______________________________________________ > Indic-computing-users mailing list http://indic-computing.sourceforge.n= et/ > Ind...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/indic-computing-users > [Other Indic-Computing mailing lists: -devel, -standards, -announce] |
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