Re: [Indic-computing-devel] W.r.t to ContentManager.de and MailJol.com

[Harsha P R <har...@ya...>]

Hi Sunil,


--- sunil <su...@in...> wrote:
> Dear Sastry, Harsha and Nanitha,
> 
> Do tell us if the code of Inscript input method, for
> Java 1.4 using opentype fonts is open 
> source and cross platform. 


Yes it is for opensource (will be up on IISc site
soon). Since java is cross platform, this will work on
linux/windows with java installed.


> For ex. Does it work in
> Mozilla for Linux and Windows. 

Yes. Though it does not work as a native mozilla input
method, you can have a Swing applet running in
Mozilla/IE to use the java input methods.  That way,
it is coss platform.  BUt to have the java input
methods, the end user needs to have JRE installed on
his system which is a heavy weight download if it isnt
there. and also the opentype fonts for languages other
than devanagari. (Or wait for future releases of Java)

If the target audience access a specific system to
which all required software can be suppiled or if you
plan to distribute CDs, to each user, then this is
feasible.

If you wish to have a non Java Input Method Framework
based Indic text component in an applet (with foot
print of < 150K) even thats possible. BUt that will be
like the usual keyboard translators with TTFs. With
additional code, it is possible to take care of the
the arrow keys' navigation, delete and backspace. But
that might make it a 200K to 250K component. This
works with browsers which have builtin JVM. (IE6 has
no JVM)

You can also have FontCode->UNICODE tranlation or
vice-versa. but that better be at the backend and not
at the client side. And finally, why would any one
want to have UNICODE->FontCode tranlation!!??


> Please 
> give us more details about the project.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Sunil
> --



Hope this helps.
Regards,
Harsha




> 
> Sunil Abraham
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guntupalli Karunakar
> <kar...@fr...>
> To: su...@in..., har...@ya...,
> rs...@mg...
> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 12:18:20 +0530
> Subject: Re: [Indic-computing-devel] W.r.t to
> ContentManager.de and MailJol.com
> 
> > On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 10:17:51 +0530
> > "sunil" <su...@in...> wrote:
> > 
> > > I have already reverted w.r.t to
> contentmanager.de. Do write if you
> > need any other 
> > > clarifications. The deal is that my colleague
> Sreekanth has given a 7
> > day Python and Zope 
> > > training to the students of Vidhya Prathistan
> Institute of
> > Information Technology, 
> > > Baramathi, Maharastra. This is an educational
> institution promoted by
> > Sharad Pawar. In 
> > > exchange for the training the principal Dr. Amol
> Goje has agreed to
> > assign co-ordinated 
> > > project work to the students of the college so
> that they can
> > contribute to the 'open source' 
> > > movement. My team in Bangalore - MAHITI.ORG is
> inexperienced in Java.
> > We need 
> > > someone to help us with the roadmap of the Java
> Applet [multilingual
> > - multiplatform 
> > > WYSIWYG HTML editor - XML support]. Once this
> roadmap is prepared.
> > MAHITI will 
> > > co-ordinate the development along with the
> students of VIIT. Can
> > anyone please help 
> > > with this ....we are getting desperate.
> > > 
> > > W.r.t to MailJol I am most interested in
> > > > 4 Methods on Input [Onscreen Keyboard,
> Phonetic, 
> > > > UNICODE to FontCode translator
> > > > FontCode  to UNICODE translator
> > 
> >   There is an ISCII plugin (displays ISCII text in
> webpage using fonts
> > installed locally, no dynamic font stuff ) 
> > ISCII plugin is available from
> > 
> > http://www.iiit.net/ltrc/iscii/index.htm
> > 
> > 
> > Some font convertors also  (from ISCII <-> font
> encoding)
> > 
> > http://www.iiit.net/ltrc/FC-1.0/fc.html
> > 
> > All these are written in C, but should be very
> easy to rewrite them in
> > Java.
> > The above are released under GPL.
> > 
> > There are some English-indianlang dictionaries
> also there in ISCII
> > format . I am working on converting them to
> Unicode & put them in a SQL
> > database. This would help in translation tools we
> want to create.
> > 
> > > Again we have no Java competence to replicate
> this -- I think the
> > MailJol uses 
> > > COM/ActiveX and therefore does not work on Linux
> > 
> > TDIL Team at IISc has developed Inscript input
> method, for Java 1.4
> > using opentype fonts. 
> > Contact:
> > Sastry Ramachandrula <rs...@mg...>,
> > Harsha <har...@ya...>
> > Anita <na...@mg...>,
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Karunakar
> > 
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> 


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