[Fsf-friends] Re: [LIG]Indianisation of GNU/Linux

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

yups,
that's a lot of info, and in a very well organised manner
basically, i personally believe that as soon as pango has it's next
release, we may be able to bring full scale support for indic languages
in Linux as far as gnome is concerned. (of course, a massive effort is
needed)
for KDE i don't know, Taneem Ahmed <taneem@eyetap.org> may be able to
answer
however, as far as i know, for bangla, suitable opentype (*.otf) fonts
are not ready, and i believe that's the case with many other indic
languages too

i believe that the best supported Indic language at this moment is Hindi

/*drool*/
 http://vhost.dulug.duke.edu/~louie/screenshots/gconf-editor-hindi.png
/*drool*/

and they have the fonts and other stuffs ready (it seems)
You can also check out the links at http://www.gnome.org/i18n/
and http://i18n.kde.org/ for more info
you can also ask at the mailing lists of these sites
back to studies now.....
-cheers-
sdg


     
On Sat, 2002-08-17 at 00:28, Frederick Noronha wrote:
> I was fishing around for some information on the possible Indianisation of
> GNU/Linux. As Ms Mita puts it, Edward Cherlin's info (via the Simputer
> mailing list on yahoogroups) appears to be mind-boggling. What do others
> on this list think of it? Any feedback? FN
> 
> On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Mita wrote:
> 
>