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

[Tapan P. <ta...@ya...>]

Does anyone know the current level of Indic support in most Java MIDP  
2.0 implementations (input methods, rendering)?  I know Symbian  
versions 6.1 and 7.0 dont support indic languages, but I think with v.  
8.0 Hindi support is added.
On Sep 17, 2004, at 5:17 AM, Amit Murthy wrote:

> Hi Krishnamurthy,
>
> For what its worth,
>
> I got this code from a Sun community website  
> (http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2004/04/22/images.html)
> that allows one to generate images from unicode text.
>
> I have modified it to generate wbmp images using the Sampige font.
>
> Please note that for wbmp output, you will need the JAI Image I/O API  
> from
> here - http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/jai/
>
> For png and jpeg output you do not need the above package, just JDK  
> 1.4 will do.
>
> *********************************************************************** 
> *************************
>
> import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
> import java.awt.font.*;
> import java.awt.geom.*;
> import java.awt.*;
> import java.io.*;
> import javax.imageio.*;
> import java.util.Arrays;
> import java.util.*;
> import javax.imageio.stream.*;
>
>
> public class text2img {
> 	public static void main(String [] args) {
>         try {
>             System.out.println("Starting...");
>
>             String text = "\u0c85\u0c86";
>
>             String font_file =  
> "/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_02/jre/lib/fonts/Sampige.ttf";
>
>             float size = 20.0f;
>
>             // configure all of the parameters
>             Color background = Color.white;
>             Color color = Color.black;
>
>             Font font = Font.createFont(Font.TRUETYPE_FONT,
>                             new FileInputStream(font_file));
>             font = font.deriveFont(size);
>
>             BufferedImage buffer =
>                 new BufferedImage(1,1,BufferedImage.TYPE_BYTE_BINARY);
>             Graphics2D g2 = buffer.createGraphics();
>             g2.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING,
>                                 RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON);
>             FontRenderContext fc = g2.getFontRenderContext();
>             Rectangle2D bounds = font.getStringBounds(text,fc);
>
>             // calculate the size of the text
>             int width = (int) bounds.getWidth();
>             int height = (int) bounds.getHeight() * 2;
>
>             // prepare some output
>             buffer = new BufferedImage(width, height,
>                                     BufferedImage.TYPE_BYTE_BINARY );
>             g2 = buffer.createGraphics();
>             g2.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING,
>                                 RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON);
>             g2.setFont(font);
>
>             // actually do the drawing
>             g2.setColor(background);
>             g2.fillRect(0,0,width,height);
>             g2.setColor(color);
>             g2.drawString(text,0,(int)-bounds.getY());
>
>             System.out.println("Image writer understands..." +  
> Arrays.asList(ImageIO.getWriterFormatNames()));
>
>             // getting an wbmp image writer
>             Iterator iter = ImageIO.getImageWritersByFormatName  
> ("wbmp");
>
>             ImageWriter wbmpwriter = (ImageWriter) iter.next();
>             File fp = new File("b20.wbmp");
>             FileImageOutputStream fios = new FileImageOutputStream  
> (fp);
>
>             wbmpwriter.setOutput(fios);
>             wbmpwriter.write(buffer);
>
>             fios.close();
>
>
>             /*/ output the image as png
>             File fp = new File("a.png");
>             if (!ImageIO.write(buffer, "png", fp)) {
>                 System.out.println("Format not supported...");
>             }
>             /*/
>
>             System.out.println("Ending...");
>          }
>          catch (Exception e)
>          {
>             System.out.println(e);
>          }
> 	}
> }
>
> *********************************************************************** 
> **********************
>
>   Amit
>
>
> On Friday 17 Sep 2004 4:09 pm, Krishnamurthy Nagarajan wrote:
>> 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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