[Indic-computing-devel] Fwd: Feedback... from Malayalam networks

[Tapan P. <ta...@ya...>]

Below are updates from our friends working on Gnome 2
port for Malayalam...

(Btw, you guys are making me feel like Fred by fwding
all these mails onto -devel all the time...) ;)


--- Frederick Noronha <fr...@by...> wrote:
> Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 20:38:34 +0530 (IST)
> From: Frederick Noronha <fr...@by...>
> To: "Tapan S. Parikh" <ta...@ya...>
> CC: Brij Sethi <br...@in...>, Joseph Koshy
> <ko...@in...>,
>         "Venkatesh (Venky) Hariharan"
> <ve...@vs...>,
>         Ashish Kotamkar <as...@mi...>,
>         Vijay Pratap Singh <vi...@sr...>,
>         Guntupalli Karunakar
> <kar...@ne...>
> Subject: Feedback... from Malayalam networks
> 
> From ar...@gn... Mon Aug 26 20:37:19 2002
> 
> 
> > 
> > MALAYALAM GNU/LINUX PROJECT: Baiju M
> <mal...@ya...> is one of
> > those who is planning to work with the Malayalam
> GNU/Linux project (being
> > undertaken by the KBIP and the Free Software
> Foundation-India, as he
> > recently mentioned, in passing. Could someone
> offer an update on how that's
> > going? All the best to you guys...
> 
> FYI:
> 
>  Sorry for not updating the site for some time. Will
> do soon. 
> BTW we had some development recently. 
> 1. Locale for malaylam is mostly working. So we can
> now see the file
> date/time etc in Malayalam. 
> 2. Sorting rules in Locale is available but havent
> tested yet.
> 3. A cool (because it works) and dirty(because it is
> non standard)
> method have been found for Malayalam Word processing
> in OpenOffice. Hope
> it will work in Kword and other office tools. Need
> to test.
> (Was planning to uplodad the details of this today
> unfortunately I fell 
> ill and I am the only one with access to server.)
> 4. Made some changes to Input Method so as to
> accommodate new standards
> by Government of Kerala.
> 5. Translation work has been started.
> 6. The response we got from IT Kerala 2002 for this
> project was really
> amazing.
> 7. Code has been submitted to GTK CVS and expected
> to get integrated
> from next pango release onwards.
> 8. Planning to start a OTF font table editor.  
> 9. Exploring the possibility for Malayalam OCR and
> TTS.
>   (During the expo enquiry came for TTS systems form
> a blind person. His
> interest forcing me to work on it.) 
> 
> Baiju please do the update from now on for the
> project.
> 
> Regards
> arun.
> 
> From mal...@ya... Mon Aug 26 20:37:23
> 2002
> 
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> 
>  
> > MALAYALAM GNU/LINUX PROJECT: Baiju M
> > <mal...@ya...> is one of
> > those who is planning to work with the Malayalam
> GNU/Linux
> > project (being
> > undertaken by the KBIP and the Free Software
> Foundation-India,
> > as he
> > recently mentioned, in passing. Could someone
> offer an update
> > on how that's
> > going? All the best to you guys...
> 
> Malayalam Input method is completed. We adopted the
> new
> standared keyboard layout suggested by Govt. of
> kerala as the
> defualt (Its main feature is that, it includes
> Malayaalm
> "chillu" letters and avoided "Koottaksharas", it is
> based on
> inscript layout). Malayalam font renderer was
> already completed.
> Now we are about to start GNOME 2.0.2 translation
> work
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Baiju M
> 
>
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