[smc-devel] Re: dhirendra from cusat

[Baiju M]

Hi Dhirendra,
             Its very nice to hear that you are going to work on OpenOffice
support for Malayalam. We only made a'dirty' solution, it just works only.
But we should make a good solution using Unicode,OTF etc. A team from NCST
has done it for MS Windows (I think its based on OTF). So you can extend
this into
Malayalam in GNU/Linux.
(http://forum.gnu.org.in/Volunteers/Members/baiju/i18n for links) Before
localization, we have to make internationalization
(please read gettext manual ,$info gettext) We have to add Malayalam
OpenType layout suport as done in pango
(http://www.gtk.org,http://www.pango.org)
Then it can support Malayalam properly with any unicode compatible OTF font.

Please join our mailing list, we can discuss any technical stuffs there.
address@hidden, also send your savannah ID, so that I can add you as a
developer there.

http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/malayalam

Regards,
Baiju M
--
P.S: I CC'ed this mail to SMC devel list, if anyone interested please help
this guy.


> sir,
>  I Dhirendra Kumar a student of Cochin university Planning to Localize
> Openoffice  in Malyalam .I want to know that you have completed this
> so that i should not move with the same which is all ready done.
>
> for sending this information soon , I will be very greatfull to you.
> Thanking you.
> dhirendra