[Indic-computing-devel] Re: [Kannada] Kannada locale

[Arun S. <ar...@sh...>]

On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 07:58:30PM +0530, Guntupalli Karunakar wrote:
> Hi,
>   As of now Kannada locale is not present in glibc (nor in any other
> locales project - ICU etc)

Hope that'll change soon.

>  Look for comments  of type % *** . Strings are basically to be
> written as unicode code points . eg for Sunday in Kannada , write it
> down in Kannada on paper & then write the unicode codes for each
> character involved in sequence.

I found an easier way. I type in the text in a WYSIWIG manner in a UTF-8
environment (my setup is windows) to produce something like:

http://www.sharma-home.net/~adsharma/projects/kn_IN/kn_IN.src.txt

and then run it through:

http://www.sharma-home.net/~adsharma/projects/kn_IN/localify.py

to get:

http://www.sharma-home.net/~adsharma/projects/kn_IN/kn_IN.utf8

I've verified the days/month part to be working:

http://www.sharma-home.net/~adsharma/projects/kn_IN/kn_IN.date.txt
http://www.sharma-home.net/~adsharma/projects/kn_IN/kn_IN.cal.txt

using:

http://www.sharma-home.net/~adsharma/projects/kn_IN/locale.sh

However, I haven't been able to test the currency part. strfmon doesn't
seem to work as advertized on Mandrake 8.2. Has anyone tried something
newer ?

	-Arun