Hi, Although distros like Ubuntu has Kannada support,its hard to remember the key board layout and start working to full fledge capabilities(Atleast for beginners like me). Thus Kannada(unicode) on a FOSS OS is long been a short coming I'm facing in a FOSS OS. Baraha helps to overcome this. We can use Baraha on a FOSS OS using WINE,but it is not all that easy using it. I request Mr.Sheshadri Vasu(Baraha developer) and the ANAKRU foundation to come out with a Open/Cross platform version of Baraha or atleast with the code so that somebody else can work on porting it to FOSS.
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- Nudi and FOSS (vinay sreenivasa)
Message: 1 Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:46:21 +0530 From: vinay sreenivasa vinay@itforchange.net Subject: [FSUG-Bangalore] Nudi and FOSS To: fsug-bangalore@mm.gnu.org.in Message-ID: 496AEE45.7070507@itforchange.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
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 91-98805-95032 vinay@itforchange.net
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