[FSF India] Malayalam support for GNU/Linux

[Anil Kumar]

Awesome! Congratulations to the team. Radi, why don't you reveal the names
of the people worked on it?

   Anil


On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Radhakrishnan CV wrote:

> 
> GNU/Linux system can now support Malayalam.
> 
> Today a team of developers in FreeDevelopers.net (India) have
> successfully implemented Malayalam support in Pango and an input
> module for gtk which can support Hellingman's Malayalam
> Transliteration Schema. Jeroen Hellingman is the man who wrote a TeX
> package, input scheme and a free Malayalam font using Metafont
> language. However, the metafont sources can only create rastor fonts
> that are fit for usage in a TeX system, we need to write our own
> fonts for using in GNU/Linux.
> 
> The software used are gtk+-1.3.5, pango-0.16. The sources will be
> released soon. A screen shot can be had at:
> 
>  http://www.tugindia.org.in/malayalam/malayalam.jpg
> 
> Its is just in alpha stage and you can expect a few bugs. Comments
> are welcome.
> 
> Congratulations to the young developers of FD (India).
> 
> 

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