Re: [Indic-computing-devel] Java and hi_IN support

[Karunakar <kar...@fr...>]

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From: "Arun Sharma" <ar...@sh...>
To: <ind...@li...>
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 11:57 AM
Subject: [Indic-computing-devel] Java and hi_IN support


>
> The JDK 1.4 announcement that went out today claimed hi_IN support. I've
> downloaded and installed the Linux version, but can't find anything
> specific to Hindi. Does anyone on this forum know exactly what the
> announcement means ?
>
 Jdk1.4  has a hi_IN unicode locale
It has the indic rendering support built in for swing components and also a
opentype font (LucidaSansRegular) supporting devanagari.
 (This font is diff than the one in IBM's JDK )

You can chek the support by using  '\uXXXX'  char sequences in strings
say like  '\u0915'+'\u094d'+'\u0930'  (this gives a kra )

java based input methods are needed to type in linux.
IISc guys can throw more light on this, they did a notepad application with
hindi input methods.

Regards,
Karunakar