[Indic-computing-devel] On Harsha's, Tapan's and Patricia's mails

[sunil <su...@in...>]

"Harsha P R" <har...@ya...> wrote:-
> If you have browser that can render opentype fonts,
> you dont need to convert UNICODE-> FontCode. Thats IE
> on win2k and above. if you have control over the
> system, this should answer ur question (??)

What would happen on Mozilla on Windoze / *nix?

"Tapan S. Parikh" <ta...@ya...> wrote:-
> This probably is not on the level of the other work here, and def too 
> windoze oriented, but I have some nasty little hacks to be able to get 
> ISCII code into and out of databases (specifically Access and SQL 
> Server) and converted to Java's internal unicode format when using the 
> Merant JDBC drivers included with Jrun.  This allows one to store, 
> retrieve and search ISCII data in text and varchar fields.

Okay time to forgive me Java ignorance again. Questions
1. Is JRUN free on all platforms
2. How do we go about making your work support *nix
 
> Theyre just nastly little hacks, but less than trivial due to the way 
> the JDBC driver interprets the high order bit of ISCII chars.  Also
> they may provide some insight in the problems needed to be overcome to write
> DB Apis for ISCII text, and interfacing Unicode with ASCII and ISCII.

Great...How can we make this work for the ZODB?

> Now i agree there is a strong argument that this should be done server 
> side b/c of portability, but it is not always true that Unicode 
> transfers should take 2x as long.  

Oops...if Unicode is not twice as heavy - doesn't that make a strong argument for a client 
side implementation for web applications. Maybe a Java applet [Instead of an OCX 
component as Mithi.com has done] that runs within a browser.  I am aware of the 
disadvantages 1. heavy download 2> sluggishness of Java in certain environments 3> 
MSIE does not support JVM by default. But we will be able to address many browsers on 
most platforms.

> and obv there is the issue of how to distinguish between diff scripts, 
> and related issues in unicode round trips, but its something to think 

Please give us some more information on this? Not sure what you mean.

"J. Patricia Annie JebaMalar" <pa...@la...> wrote
> We have recently released an X-Interface, where we have modified the
> X-library  to support Indian Languages. Since we have modified in the library
> level, the  applications like KDE, K-Office, Netscape, etc. and even your own
> application,  that runs on top of it inherits this property.

The work of the tenet group sound amazing. They seems to have completely addressed 
the problem on the Linux platform. We will download the X-interface and try it on Open 
Office.org. The group will be interested to know that the Zope community is writing an 
interface between Zope and Open Office.org. This combined with the Tenet solution will 
address Indic content management for Linux.

I will just repeat my homework before I pass the mic.

- evaluating TENET's X-Interface for Open Office
- evaluating and studying GPL WYSIWYG HTML Editors such as  
http://sourceforge.net/projects/htmltea/ and http://www.hexidec.com/ekit.html 
- Anyone wanna add to my list

Thanks,

Sunil

P.S. The Indian Zope and Python User group izpug on groups.yahoo.com has really picked 
up. We have 46 members and 76 posts for January. Members on this group interested in 
Indianizing Zope are invited to join.
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