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

[Krishnamurthy N. <kn...@ya...>]

Hi Surya,

--- Suryaprakash Kompalli <kom...@ce...>
wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> So, what kind of a standard are we planning to
> use for the transliteration itself?

Well, we need not really get into standards for
transliteration - it can easily be made generic enough

and modifiable by either end-user or other developers.


>True in the current scenario, but why in the
> long run?? We can create engines to do this,
> something
> like say-flash - If you want to view falsh based
> content,
> you need flash to be on your machine (client side) -
> similar way - if you need to view Devanagari text -
> install our XYZ (preferably opensource) package, and
> any
> website that conforms to these standards will be
> able to
> display Devanagari to you. This will allow -
> A central body to easily make modifications to how
> the software
> behaves, instead of individual websites having
> arbitrary
> control.
> 	A (ServerSide) JScript + (ClientSide)Java based
> solution might
> allow us to come up with a quick fix to do something
> like this. And at a
> subsequent time, we can do away with the quick fix
> and develop our own
> packages to deal with any kind of character
> rendering or input schemes.
> (option buttons, password entry, input boxes etc.)

Yes, I agree that we can create engines that can be
downloaded by a client and can be centrally
controlled.
This would also make the apps as interactive as
possible.

> 		This is exactly what I am hinting at -
> It might be difficult to get instant results in the
> short
> term - but in the long term, a client side solution
> would
> help.

Yes.


> I have done the transliteration to unicode part
> for devanagari - for a tool we use for our research
> work.
> If someone sheds light on the transliteration scheme
> being used, I could help.
 
Pls see the reply further down in this mail.


> 	We are using unicode encoding for such purposes and
> I am in the process of developing a query and
> retrieval
> system using the same scheme (for the tool mentioned
> earlier)
> 
> 	However, There could be some misinterpretations
> on my part, I think I need to brush up on the
> activities in our group. I have been working on
> Indic
> Computing for a short while, but I do not know where
> to get technical-info about the various
> ideas/projects that
> everyone is posting here - If there is a web-site(s)
> from
> where I can get more info, it would be gr8. I did
> not
> notice info about the translib project at -
>
http://indic-computing.sourceforge.net/projects/index.html

Since it's still work-in-progress, we haven't put up a
downloadable tarball. You can check out, as anon user,
the entire indic-computing project CVS tree from the 
cvs page of this project
(http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=38057) or
navigate thru the main page and reach at the same page
from the 'Sources' sub-section. Pls go thru the
documentation (and source) of translib and other
projects and let's know your comments.

> 	And, is there a pdf verion of the handbook?
>
http://indic-computing.sourceforge.net/handbook/index.html

I suggest you download the doc-tool-chain tarball and
run the docbook to get a single document in your
preferred format.

Thanks for your interest!

cheers,
Nagarajan


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