Re: [Indic-computing-users] Re: Indic-computing-users digest

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

Hi Amit,

Your suggestion of having a library to convert
transliterated text to Indian language char image, as
an interim solution, is very valid.

In fact, my generic transliteration rule framework 
for Indian languages and the library that implements
it (translib) does that along with a simple rendering
tool like gozer (which uses imlib) on Linux/freeBSD.
This is available on indic-computing project as a
subproject named 'translib'.

I used some of CDAC fonts as sample fonts but they are
not GPL'd fonts. We can use some GPL'd fonts for that
purpose. One would need to write up the letterfontmap
file and may be touch up the rules a bit (using my 
files as reference).

About govt bodies - CDAC, TDIL etc are supposed to be
doing this standardization, but....

cheers,
Nagarajan


--- Amit Murthy <am...@on...> wrote:

> Dear Pavanaja,
> 

> 
> Is there any government body we can write to in this
> regard?
> 
> Do you see value in developing a library that would
> convert transliterated
> text into Indian language character images? This
> could be a short term 
> measure till proper Unicode and font support becomes
> available on handsets.....
> 
>   Amit



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