Re: [Indic-computing-users] Farsi, Urdu, Bangla... and neighbourhood news

[ravikant <rav...@sa...>]

Dear Venky and other friends

 Sarai is indeed planning to start work on Urdu .kde with the help of Ara=
sh=20
Zeini of Linux Iran who worked with the community on Farsi localisation. =
 The=20
Farsi version should work for urdu as well, with a little modification,=20
technically. Linguistically, Hindi too can borrow a lot once Farsi gets=20
rendered in Urdu.=20
There is plenty to download from this site for Linux users who want to do=
 more=20
work or derive from the existing works.

http://www.linuxiran.org/

If you wish to read an interview I did with Arash You can check the Sarai=
=20
Reader 03: Shaping Technologies:
http://www.sarai.net/journal/03pdf/282_289_azeini.pdf
the title of which is significant: 'No Other Hand Will Scratch my Back=20

Enjoy and cooperate
ravikant

On Wednesday 04 June 2003 02:20 am, Venky Hariharan wrote:
> Ravikant of Sarai recently mentioned that they are working on Urdu.
>
> Venky
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Frederick Noronha (FN) <fr...@by...>
> To: Tee Emm <tm...@su...>
> Cc: <ta...@sa...>; <Ind...@li...=
t>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 3:04 AM
> Subject: [Indic-computing-users] Farsi, Urdu, Bangla... and neighbourho=
od
> news
>
> > News from the South Asian region. Might be of interest to those worki=
ng
> > on similar language issues in India. Is anyone working on Urdu here? =
FN
> >
> > On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Tee Emm wrote:
> > > Farsi and Urdu are very similar - so much so that an urdu-wala can =
go
> > > on reading farsi until he hit a few words that is foreign to him an=
d
> > > the same goes for farsi-walas. Parsnigar is a persian wordprocessor
> > > which can be used for writing urdu with the right font. Bad news th=
at
> > > parsnigar is a commercial product. I read a recent writeup from you=
 in
> > > Spider's June Edition in which you've mentioned an effort by BD exp=
ats
> > > in California to unleash a freely downloadable Bangla Word Processo=
ry.
> > > I've been advocating something similar since June 2001
> > > (http://pakistan.blogspot.com/2001_06_24_pakistan_archive.html#4298=
878)
> > > but haven't been very lucky.
> > >
> > > Frederick Noronha (FN) wrote:
> > > >This is from the LinuxIran mailing list. Just thought of forwardin=
g it
>
> to
>
> > > >PLUC. Is there some similarity between the languages? FN
> >
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