Re: [Indic-computing-users] Web Pages in Indic Scripts

[Guntupalli K. <kar...@fr...>]

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 15:19:40 +0530
"Vijay Barve" <vij...@fr...> wrote:

> 
> 
> Dear Friends,
> 
> I have to make a website in Indic Scripts. ( To start with it is
> going to be in Telugu and English and later on Hindi, Kannada,
> Malayam and Tamil are to be added.) SOme part of the sute can be
> static, which I need immiditely. The site also needs to have dynamic
> data (data driven site) and not just static pages. In this regard I
> need the following information as I am new to this field.
> 
 Long term approach is to use unicode (utf-8) for web pages.

> 1. What fonts should I use ?
Cleint will need to have installed unicode / opentype fonts, also his
browser should support unicode rendering. or you can send content in
different encoding/fonts based on client browser.

> 2. What tools are available to generate these pages ?
 perl/php should be able to generate utf-8 pages.

> 3. Static pages in Indic fonts can be rendered on the fly, or user
> need to have fonts installed in the system ?

 Best if they have it installed.

> 4. What kind of database is conviniant to use ? ( MS-Access, MySQL
> or any other)
PostgresSQL, MySQL support unicode/utf-8, so u can use them.

> 5. Where can I get more information on these issues ?
search around for multilingual vendor sites on what they are doing.
you can get many links from indlinux.org/bookmarks.html

HTH,
Regards,
Karunakar

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An Unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to himself
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