[Indic-computing-users] Re: Updates on Malayalam project

[Frederick N. <fr...@by...>]

Thanks to Arun M for this. FN

On 9 Jan 2003, Arun M wrote:


> 
> Hi, 
> 
>    
>   Just wanted to provide you with some updates on Malayalam project. 
> 
> Regards
> Arun.
> 
> 1. Font. 
> 
>    New version of the OTF fonts are under development and will be
> released by end of this month. Fonts are developed using free software
> alone. Some more features has been added to the font and new version
> works with Open Office developer release. OO seems to be having issue
> with split vowels which are found in Malayalam and Bengla. 
> 
> 
> 2. Translation 
> 
>   Translation efforts are going fast and recently a group has been
> formed with most organisations working in the localisation front to
> standardise vocabulary. 
> 
> 3. Documentation 
> 
>   Instead of translating documentation of each application it was
> suggested that better have a book in local language which will teach
> tools being provided. This can be used with projects like Akshaya in
> Kerala aiming at IT literacy. 
> 
> 4. OCR 
> 
>   A prototype OCR for Malayalam has completed. And development of
> standalone application in progress. First version is expected by end of
> the month. 
> 
> 
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