<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">> From: Tom Hughes <tom@compton.nu><br>> <br>
> In message <<a ymailto="mailto:8990327d0804230928p7739f912o568fdf24020896ad@mail.gmail.com" href="mailto:8990327d0804230928p7739f912o568fdf24020896ad@mail.gmail.com">8990327d0804230928p7739f912o568fdf24020896ad@mail.gmail.com</a>><br>> "Arindam Ghosh" <<a ymailto="mailto:makghosh@gmail.com" href="mailto:makghosh@gmail.com">makghosh@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Gora Mohanty <<a ymailto="mailto:gora@sarai.net" href="mailto:gora@sarai.net">gora@sarai.net</a>> wrote:<br>> > > I work on internationalisation, and localisation issues, especially<br>> > > as these pertain to Indian languages, and would be glad to help out<br>> > > on this project. I hope that there is no need for me to become an<br>> > > official mentor, as I cannot always guarantee having time available<br>> > >
when needed.<br>> > <br>> > That's great...:) Can you please provide some pointers regarding<br>> > implementation of lingatures and vowel positioning of Indic scripts. I<br>> > would like to study how much of these would be required pertaining to<br>> > project.<br>> <br>> I wouldn't have thought you should have to worry about that much<br>> really - if you've got valid UTF and you use an appropriate text<br>> rendering library then that sort of stuff should sort itself out.<br><br>Rendering Indic characters into glyphs is not so straight forward -- the fonts require a lookup table or state machine to account for all the variations in character combination.<br><br>For the web site, yes I think we can rely on the browser for this, with testing of course. For other pieces of the ecosystem, it will need more inquiry, if there's time this summer. I am aware that IndicTrans has been working on an open source
solution, but not sure how much work it will be to integrate.<br><br>Mikel<br><br></div><br></div></div></body></html>