[FSUG-Bangalore] Nudi and FOSS

[vinay sreenivasa]

Hi All,

In trying to promote FOSS with the government of Karnataka, one of the 
problems is that Nudi does not work on any FOSS OS. However in getting 
Nudi to work on a FOSS OS, i guess there are various issues , some of 
which I have written below. Requesting the community to go through the 
same and let me know If I have captured the problem accurately and also 
let me know your thoughts on the solutions.

There is a way to make Nudi work on a FOSS distro by using SCIM I guess, 
but that will mean that we have to implement Nudi in its existing format 
which is not in Unicode. On the other hand, to move Nudi to Unicode, it 
has to be done only by the KGP, soemthing which we dont know if they are 
willing to do.

Now assuming that we get KGP to move Nudi to Unicode(and make it free 
and open) i guess there are some problems with rendering kannada on 
unicode(some things like arkavottu will not work? ), also the other 
issue being that we need someone to support Nudi continuously as 
Fedora,Ubuntu,Debian etc keep releasing newer versions right?

Please do let me know your thoughts.

Thanks,
Vinay.







Vinay Sreenivasa
IT for Change
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vinay at itforchange.net

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