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

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Dear Ajay,

Thanks.

If you are using windows 2000 then its very easy to use indic-languages.
As you know Win 2k supports two Indian language script Devanagari and
Tamil, Win 2k also provides virtual keyboard. You just need to change the
locale and you system/application will work for Indian language if it
supports.

But unfortunately we have only released the server and its running on
vartalaap.ncb.ernet.in:6667. We have still not released the client
application and available application does not support indic-lang (ex.
Mirc). You can use mirc and can test the server in English.

We will very soon release the client and after that you will be able to
communicate in Indian languages.

For Linux porting we are testing the all possible environment like Qt,
GTK+ and Java.

Bye,
Manu.

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On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Ajay Guleria wrote:

> Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 09:10:11 -0700
> From: Ajay Guleria <aja...@ya...>
> To: Manoranjan Kumar Singh <ma...@nc...>
> Cc: Ind...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Indic-computing-devel] Hi All!
>
> Dear Manoranjan,
>
> Thanks for the details. Description is more clear to me now. I really want to
> try it out, but I just have an English keyboard. How do I create Indian
> Unicode characters? BTW, are there Hindi keyboards around?
>
> Talking of Linux porting, I think you just need to learn Qt which is more like
> Visual C++ except for it's use of signal and slots instead of Windows
> messaging. Believe me, it won't be much difficult to pick up. And you can
> have your application run on all Unix/linux and even Windows without any
> effort except recompile.
>
> PS: Did you know KDE is already ported to Tamil? Another website to be aware
> of is www.li18nux.com which is engaged in Internationalization of Linux.
> These guys would be more interested in hearing about your work.
>
> -Ajay
>
> On Thursday 18 July 2002 09:17 pm, Manoranjan Kumar Singh wrote:
> > Dear Ajay,
> >
> > You are right, Vartalaap is a Unicode based chat system. But apart from
> > chat it also provide other facility like archive and replay of session,
> > support for virtual classroom (A classroom on the net), roaming profile
> > etc.
> >
> > We are porting the Vartalaap on Linux, we have started the project and
> > will implement it within 6 month. The plan is to develop a multi-lingual
> > communication application with multi-lingual user interface. The Vartalaap
> > server is running on Windows 2000. And right now there is no plan to port
> > the server on Linux.
> >
> > I think Vartalaap chat server is the first chat server running in India
> > based on IRC protocol with Unicode support. The server address is
> > vartalaap.ncb.ernet.in and port no. is 6667. Any body can connect to this
> > server using IRC client like Mirc and can communicate with other connected
> > user.
> >
> > I have sent a request to unicode.org and waiting for reply. Can you tell
> > like how will register my application with Unicode. B'coz I have just sent
> > a mail to the organization.
> >
> > Our project is not sponsored by Microsoft and we are trying our best to
> > get the proper recognitions.
> >
> > I'll very thankful for your guidance to get the recognition.
> >
> > Our Linux patch IndiX is able to provide the support for Hindi and we have
> > also extended this project for other languages. We are also working on the
> > project BharateeyaOO.o, which is a project to enable Indian language
> > support in OpenOffice.org on Windows and Linux. Windows work is near to
> > finish and we will start working on Linux very soon.
> >
> > Looking forward for your guidance.
> >
> > Thanks n' Regards
> > Manu.
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|@|~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >~~~~ Manoranjan Kr. Singh, Staff Scientist |@| Tel:    +91 80 852 3300/0239
> > Ext 2411 NCST, 68 Electronic City,	      |@| E-Mail: ma...@nc...,
> > Bangalore, INDIA - 561229	      |@|	  ran...@ya...
> >
> > 				    |@@@@@|
> >
> > Home Page: http://www.ncb.ernet.in/~manu,
> > http://www.geocities.com/ranjan_mano
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >~~~~
> >
> > On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Ajay Guleria wrote:
> > > Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 09:31:55 -0700 (PDT)
> > > From: Ajay Guleria <aja...@ya...>
> > > To: Manoranjan Kumar Singh <ma...@nc...>,
> > >      Ind...@li...,
> > >      Ind...@li...,
> > >      Ind...@li...
> > > Subject: Re: [Indic-computing-devel] Hi All!
> > >
> > > For a minute, I was taken away by your description and thought you guys
> > > were re-inventing the wheel. In essence, "Vartalaap" is a Unicode port of
> > > a chat app, right?
> > >
> > > PS: I am just trying to get the right description and not trying to mull
> > > down on NCST contributions. I think you guys are doing great.
> > >
> > > How about getting enrolled in Unicode.org or pango.org? And helping get a
> > > Indian version of Linux out of door, unless you guys are sponsored by
> > > Microsoft. You guys developed a flavor of X that supported Hindi and
> > > still didn't push to get it adopted at Xfree86.org or X.org. At the best,
> > > you can help trolltech.com roll out a version of Qt that supports Indic
> > > scripts.
> > >
> > > Not only will it be good for NCST to get international recognition,
> > > believe me that most of developers in Linux world will consider you guys
> > > Indic gurus.
> > >
> > > Give it a thought and take care,
> > >
> > > -Ajay.
> > >
> > > --- Manoranjan Kumar Singh <ma...@nc...> wrote:
> > > > Hi All!
> > > >
> > > > I am Manoranjan kumar singh, working with NCST, Bangalore.
> > > >
> > > > Currently I am leaidng two Indian language based project Vartalaap and
> > > > BharateeyaOO.o
> > > >
> > > > Vartalaap
> > > > A project to enable the multiple languages with special focus on Indian
> > > > languages, to optimize and increase the features to support highly
> > > > intercative classroom and conference environments. It is an effort to
> > > > use the existing Internet Relay Chat concet in better way.
> > > >
> > > > BharateeyaOO.o
> > > > A project to enable Indian language support in 'OpenOffice.org source
> > > > project'. OpenOffice.org is an open source, community-developed,
> > > > multi-platform office productivity suite. We are enabling the Indian
> > > > languages
> > > > support in OpenOffice.org suite via localization of the user interface
> > > > and internationalization of the suite to provide complex text layout
> > > > support and to incorporate Indian locale specific features on Windows
> > > > as well as on linux platforms.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Plz. visit the web-site of Vartalaap & BharateeyaOO.o to know in
> > > > details URL: http://www.ncb.ernet.in/vartalaap
> > > >      http://www.ncb.ernet.in/bharateeyaoo
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks n' Regards
> > > > Manu.
> > >
> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|@|~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > >~~~~~~
> > >
> > > > Manoranjan Kr. Singh, Staff Scientist |@| Tel:    +91 80 852 3300/0239
> > > > Ext 2411
> > > > NCST, 68 Electronic City,	      |@| E-Mail: ma...@nc...,
> > > > Bangalore, INDIA - 561229	      |@|	  ran...@ya...
> > > >
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> > > >
> > > > Home Page: http://www.ncb.ernet.in/~manu,
> > > > http://www.geocities.com/ranjan_mano
> > >
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