Re: [Indic-computing-devel] javascript indic renderer and community portals

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

I certainly think this will be of huge value.  Input methods are on the
client have been a huge hurdle and often forces clients to go to Windoze
XP over other platforms like Linux or even (gasp!) Windoze 98.  I didnt
realize this would be possible using javascript, if so I am wondering
why noone thought of it before.

-- Tapan

On 05 May 2003 10:07:54 +0530
Arun M <ar...@fr...> wrote:

> Hi Friends,
> 
>    We see a lot of community portals coming up these days based on
> CMS like *nuke. But one of these CMS supports Indic. Also we dont see
> any community discussion boards in Indian languages (Pls correct me). 
> 
> Some issues I see are:
> 
>  - There is no indic(Unicode/Non unicode) support in most platforms. 
>  - Most browsers doesnt support unicode. 
> 
> Any community portal we build should be based on font encoding
> systems, at least for some more time. A idea is store
> the data in Unicode and then convert to font encoding at the server
> side.  A special proxy should help here.
> 
> Second issues is entering data from the client side. This is major
> prob. Most of the sites uses Java applets for entering the data in
> local languages. This may require good amount of modification in the
> CMS we have now like *nuke. 
> 
> What about Javascript ?  When user types in a text field using some
> Transliteration scheme or Inscript KeyBoard layout convert it to font
> encoding scheme and show Indic on the fly. Data will be posted to CMS
> based on unicode or font encoding scheme. Theme change should be
> sufficiant get *nukes support Indic(I've not looked into *nuke code in
> detail. Just a guess) 
> 
> Yesterday I made a proto of this. A crude one. It works. 
> 
> Do you think this will be of use ? If so I will work on it and
> make the code better and generic(I dont know Javascript much , will
> have to learn it first). 
> 
> 
> Arun.
> 
> 
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