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

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Hello,
> What about Javascript ?  When user types in a text field using some
> Transliteration scheme or Inscript KeyBoard layout convert it to font

	For collecting data on Indic scripts, we had created an interface
that uses Java. I had used ITRANS transliteration and the default java
fonts to come up with an input window that accepts transliteration in
Latin script and outputs Devanagari on another window.
	I am not familiar with CMS or *nuke - but with what I gather
reusable java classes could be a good way to look at it. We can develop
classes to work with other languages -
	Right now, the tool might be a bit bulky to work with since the
package has a lot of Image Processing related code to go with it. But
its' good to test offline - Ppl can take a look at it here -
www.cedar.buffalo.edu/ilt
	If its' useful, we can plan to make the input system independant
of the IP part -

> http://www.wandel.subnet.dk/hindi.html
	I tried the site out - it didnt need applets - but it didnt work
on netscape either - gave me a message saying it needs windows to work
with but then behaved OK on mozilla. :) :( What it is doing is - it
takes the unicode value for the character, converts it into int and this
is what we can do with the o/p -

<html>
&#2313;&#2314;&#2392;&#2393;
</html>

	But since what it is in the background is basically unicode, we
still need a *properly configured* browser to view the stuff - It came
out properly on Mozilla, didnt show up on netscpape. Pretty nifty - but
the addition of transliterated/keyboard based input might be more welcome.
The characters present in the interface are the ones from the unicode
table for Devanagari.

Bye,
Surya
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On 5 May 2003, Arun M 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.
>
> 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.
>
>
>