[Indic-computing-users] On Urdu localization

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

Hi all,
 For long time we havent had much moving on Urdu localization, there
have been some discussions of let on how to get going. A good way
would be to identify whats all is to be done, things which are
available, whats is not, which area needs priority work. From past
experiences with localization, a default model is getting the
following working for the language. For a start the following
 * what forms the urdu character set ( the set in unicode )
 * TTF/Opentype fonts available
 * A testing of rendering under Gnome/Kde/OOO/Mozilla.
 * Locale info for Urdu (India) ur_IN
 * keyboard layout to be used, developing keymaps & other inputs like
IIIMF, SCIM. once basic things like input, font etc work, next step
would be to start with translations, to begin with the Gnome
glossary. A more detailed steps is at -
http://www.indlinux.org/wiki/index.php/LanguageHowto As of now I see
there is some resources at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/urducomputing/  & a font available from
CRULP. So working on above would make a good starting point, request
interested peoples ideas & suggestions.

Karunakar

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