Re: [Indic-computing-standards] Re: [Indic-computing-devel] Hi All!

[Mahesh T P. <pai...@vs...>]

Dr. U.B. Pavanaja wrote:

>Ministry of I.C.T, Govt of India, is a voting member of Unicode consortium. They are collecting all the representations from individual languages, compiling them and sending them to Unicode consortium. Kannada group has already done its job. I request all other language groups to do their part so that MICT people can spead up the process.
>
Nice to know that something like this is going on.  Better late than 
never.  
This also means that the NCST will have to take a paid, institutional 
membership  :-(

>MICT wants to know from the language groups, ...
>
I think that this issue deserves better publicity.  A large number of 
linguists in our academicia are not computer aware.  But they might be 
able to help.  
Who at MICT?  Is there a last date?  Will they accept email? (After all, 
it is our Govt)

Personally, I feel that a large number of characters in malayalam 
deserve to be added to the unicode standard.  Example are the 
characters, unicode ED15 to ED55 in malayalam.ttf, from 
http://malayalamlinux.sourceforge.net/fonts/1.1/malayalam.ttf;  ie. 
glyph characters 174 to 230 in that file. ( I had sought guidance on 
some lists about unicode coding for these characters, and have no reply. 
 hence, I presume that these characters are not covered by unicode).

With regards,

Mahesh T Pai.


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