[Indic-computing-devel] Mailing list charters, etc

[<jk...@Fr...>]

Folks,

The review of NCST IndiX seems to have sparked off a lot of email
traffic, and the discussions have wandered off in a number of
directions, including the design of protocol extensions for X,
explanations of the X system etc.

The right lists for basic X11 questions would be the ones hosted by
X.Org or XFree86.Org, primarily because that is where X expertise is
most likely to be found.  Discussions of X11 protocol extensions (for
example) would best be held on those lists.

On the other hand, this /is/ the right list to discuss Indic
algorithms.  For example: issues with the Kannada rendering algorithm
used by Uniscribe ('arkavathu' handling), the problems of handling of
Malayalam 'chillaksharams', the strengths/weaknesses of the Graphite
system [SIL.ORG] etc. etc.

While there seem to be a number of resources available on the 'Net
dealing with programming X/Windows(r)/MacOS(r), there seem to be very
few which deal with the specific issues an Indian language developer
has to face.  When we setup these lists, the intent was that these
lists and the Handbook would serve to (partially) fill this need.

Regards,
Koshy
<jk...@fr...>