[Fsf-friends] [ Fwd: [malayalamlinux] Malayalam translation of the GPL]

Arun M arun@freedevelopers.net
29 Aug 2002 02:02:58 +0530


Hi friends, 

  This is realy good. 

Can you make a Unicode text file ? 
HTML file seems to have some invalid UTF-8 sequences.
gv is not able to render the ps file :(


Arun.

 --- Mahesh T Pai <paivakil@vsnl.net> wrote: > From
Mahesh T Pai Wed Aug 28 09:30:19 2002
> To: malayalamlinux@yahoogroups.com, 
>  indlinux-group@lists.sourceforge.net
> From: Mahesh T Pai <paivakil@vsnl.net>
> Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 22:00:19 +0530
> Subject: [malayalamlinux] Malayalam translation of
> the GPL
> 
> Dear everybody,
> 
> I am working on translating the GPL into Malayalam. 
> At present, the preamble
> is completed, and I have put it up on my site,
> http://in.geocities.com/paivakil/freecommunity/
> 
> The files are pre-release versions, and comments on
> the terminology used is
> invited.  For ease of feed back, I have numbered the
> paragraphs in square
> brackets [], and please quote the paragraph number
> in your responses.
> 
> It is available in four formats,
> 1. Varamozhi text:-
>
http://in.geocities.com/paivakil/freecommunity/gpl-ml-preamble-prerelease.txt
> 
> 2. jpeg file:- (huge - 183 kb)
>
http://in.geocities.com/paivakil/freecommunity/gpl-ml-preamble-prerelease.jpg
> 
> 3. iscii encoded html, cur'tsy iLeap - so it uses
> ML-TTkarthika font.
>
http://in.geocities.com/paivakil/freecommunity/gpl-ml-preamble-prerelease.htm
> 
> 4. Unicode html, converted from varamozhi.
>
http://in.geocities.com/paivakil/freecommunity/gpl-ml-preamble-prerelease-unicode.htm
> 
> The unicode file uses styles in the headers and uses
> malayalam.ttf (the font) by
> default.  If you do not have malayalam.ttf, open
> this file (the html file) in
> any text editor, and add name of font you have on
> line 19.
> 
> 5. Post script format, (hhhhhuuuuuuggggggeeeeee -
> 251 kb)
>
http://in.geocities.com/paivakil/freecommunity/gpl-ml-preamble-prerelease.ps
> 
> I expect that there might some some opinions on the
> choice of words used, (like
> 'saujanyam' and 'swatantra').
> 
> Expecting your feed back (boquets and brickbats),
> Mahesh T Pai.