Re: [Indic-computing-standards] Hi All!

[Dr. U.B. P. <pav...@vi...>]

MAIT also has taken some initiative to standardise fonts for 
Indian languages. One can contact Vinnie Metha at 
ma...@vs....

Rgds,
Pavanaja

> 
> Actually this is the type of impasse the indic-computing project wants
> to resolve, to make sure local language groups have better access to
> these standardization processes and to make sure local languages are
> appropriately used and respresented in software and content.  We are
> looking forward to working together with local groups and linguists
> such as you mention as well as TDIL and MICT to achieve these goals.
> 
> You should probably come to the planning workshop we are organizing in
> Bangalore in mid-Sept.  Details to come on the list as soon as the
> date is finalized.
> 
> Regards,
> Tapan
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mahesh T Pai" <pai...@vs...>
> Cc: <Ind...@li...>;
> <Ind...@li...>;
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> Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 4:40 PM
> Subject: Re: [Indic-computing-standards] Re: [Indic-computing-devel]
> Hi All!
> 
> 
> >
> > Dr. U.B. Pavanaja wrote:
> >
> > >Ministry of I.C.T, Govt of India, is a voting member of Unicode
> consortium. They are collecting all the representations from
> individual languages, compiling them and sending them to Unicode
> consortium. Kannada group has already done its job. I request all
> other language groups to do their part so that MICT people can spead
> up the process. > > > Nice to know that something like this is going
> on.  Better late than > never. > This also means that the NCST will
> have to take a paid, institutional > membership  :-( > > >MICT wants
> to know from the language groups, ... > > > I think that this issue
> deserves better publicity.  A large number of > linguists in our
> academicia are not computer aware.  But they might be > able to help.
> > Who at MICT?  Is there a last date?  Will they accept email? (After
> all, > it is our Govt) > > Personally, I feel that a large number of
> characters in malayalam > deserve to be added to the unicode standard.
>  Example are the > characters, unicode ED15 to ED55 in malayalam.ttf,
> from > http://malayalamlinux.sourceforge.net/fonts/1.1/malayalam.ttf; 
> ie. > glyph characters 174 to 230 in that file. ( I had sought
> guidance on > some lists about unicode coding for these characters,
> and have no reply. >  hence, I presume that these characters are not
> covered by unicode). > > With regards, > > Mahesh T Pai. > > >
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