Re: [Indic-computing-devel] Mahiti.ORG's indic language input requirements

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

On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 23:46:14 -0800 (PST)
jk...@Fr... (Joseph Koshy) wrote:

> 
>
>   (1) a widget or framework that allows WYSIWYG creation of HTML
>   pages    including tables.
>   (2) an input method that can handle indian languages
> 
> As for (1) a brief web search turned up a number of existing
> projects[http://www.bris.ac.uk/ISC/cms/ttw.html] has a short survey
> listed, including editors that work with Zope and editors
> implemented in Javascript (!).
> [http://www.utoronto.ca/webdocs/HTMLdocs/UNIXTOOLS/unix_editors.htm
> l] is another link to browse.
> 
> Topic (2) would be of interest to the folks on this list, so lets
> discuss that here.  I've been unable to reach the IIIT-H website for
> more than a week now (it seems off the 'Net).  Can someone
> knowledgeable about the technical details of their work help with
> the following (basic) questions that I have?
> 
 Their work is mainly in foll.
  ISCII plugin -       view ISCII based web pages, using locally
installed fonts , supports many popular fonts , including CDAC ISFOC 
& bharatbhasha's  shusha fonts.  Anusaaraka - Machine transalation for
indian languages. Right now only indlang to indlang supported, English
to hindi in development.  English - indian lang  dictionaries in ISCII
format.  Font convertors - convertors to & from various font encodings
.

They do lot more, but only above are relevant to current context.
Also All above available under GPL license.

> * what standards do they base their work on (ISCII/UNICODE/??)
 ISCII  

> * is their work system specific?  If so, what operating environments
 Available for both windoz and linux (mean *nix )

>   do they assume (e.g:- do they use specific fonts, OS-specific APIs
>   etc)  Use the CDAC ISFOC fonts, no OS specific APIs, 

> * any documentation / published papers on their work?
 Self documented. Much info is on  the iiit.net site  & some
references on tdil.mit.gov.in 

> * are their sources available from anywhere else?
 Dont know. Should ask permission to mirror (maybe here itself). I
Have most of the stuff above on my m/c should be around 20-30MB.

> * how well are their design decisions & code documented?
> 
 That you judge by reading their code

> Basically, I want to guage the RE-USEABILITY of their effort.
> 
 Well very re-usable. Already I am converting the dictionaries to
Unicode & also trying to do unicode (utf8) version of plugin.

Regards,
Karunakar