[Indic-computing-users] Some notes on Konkani...

[Frederick N. (FN) <fr...@by...>]

On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, [iso-8859-1] Alok Kumar wrote:


> Hi Fred,
> 
> > Please don't overlook the fact that this is an important development for 
> > us in Goa. After all, the government-recognised script for Konkani is 
> > Devanagari. (We also need Kannada and Roman-script, including with the 
> 
> > additional accents, solutions for Konkani... and also Malayalam and 
> > Perso-Arabic script solutions. These are all the scripts this small 
> > language with an estimated 1.5 to 5 million speakers is written in.)
> > 
> 
> Great to hear that. 
> While the other scripts will have to wait, since devanagari support is quite ok
> now in both Win* and *nix (see http://geocities.com/alkuma/seehindi.html for
> setup), would any of you like to 
> 
> * voluntter to take up editing of http://dmoz.org/Test/World/Konkani ,
> netscape's website directory for Konkani
> * volunteer to translate the http://gnuwin.epfl.ch site to Konkani
> * volunteer to translate the linux howto at http://geocities.com/linuxparichay
> to konkani
> * start a mailing list /linux user group where people can talk to each other in
> konkani (something on the lines of
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-bangalore-hindi (not an official blug list)
> * volunteer to maintain the Konkani section of the Indic computing handbook at
> http://indic-computing.sourceforge.net (I'm guilty of not having started this
> work yet) That will help us find out if there are special Konkani requirements
> for Konkani rendering. There are for Marathi, so there could be some for
> Konkani as well.
> 
> I would have loved to do these things myself, only I don't know Konkani.
> If you need any help with these, please mail me or mail to the indic computing
> users mailing lists.
> 
> It would be great to have more work done in Konkani. There are very few of us
> who are actually doing anything, many of us because we don't know how, or it's
> un - doable with the present set of tools. However, the bullets mentioned above
> are not so tech intensive and they 'll be a good start. 
> 
> If a thing is worth doing, it's worth doing badly till you keep doing it and
> become good at it. Every obstacle we face, and therefore clear would be a step
> forward to help the other people who would like to come forward.
> 
> If you have any questions about the technical aspects of this work, or the
> rationale, please mail me.
> 
> I also welcome your suggestions about future projects that can be undertaken;
> most of the work I do is in Hindi, but it uses the same script as far as the
> cpu is concerned.
> 
> Regards
> Alok
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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