2009/4/6 Boudhayan Gupta <[email protected]>: > Inline at the end of the mail: > > On Monday 06 April 2009 21:20:23 Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Spandana Bhowmik <[email protected]> > wrote: >> > I am working with Bengali text transcription for my PhD. Recently >> > there was a mail through ILUG-CAL list about a review in some >> > newspaper about Microsoft's "wonderful" regional language support >> > policy. I want to know more about LINUX's policy about bengali unicode >> > support, and if possible for any of you, a little reference about >> > MIcrosoft's policy about the same. >> >> Interesting that you'd put the question out. Although, the question in >> the current form is a bit broad and far reaching to be responded to >> within the limits of a LUG list mail. >> >> > Actually I want to write about problems that I am facing while working >> > with windows bengali support. So I want to know what is MS's plan >> > about this, and if there is a way-out using linux. >> >> A quick way to test out how Bengali support is on Linux is to spend a >> few minutes (well, not exactly a few minutes) on a system that is: >> >> - either installed in English with Bengali support enabled or, >> - has been installed to provide the complete Bengali experience >> >> Either way, you can test out - inputs, display and printing across a >> range of applications. >> >> Someone, who by sheer volume of Bengali output using Linux, vouches >> Fedora 10 to have the most complete support for Bengali, could perhaps >> say more ;) > > I'll tip my Fedora to that. I've used Mandriva, Debian Sid, Fedora and Ubuntu, > and I'm blown away by the quality and accuracy as well as quantity of the > Bengali translations in Fedora since v9. Although I don't like Fedora as a > distro per se ;)
Hmph...I haven't used Fedora almost at all, I was, and still am, more attracted towards Ubuntu. But as you say that...now I have to try my hand out in a Fedora. But can you suggest a website or something like that for a bit of theory? Spandy > > _______________________________________________ > Ilug-cal-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.ilug-cal.org/mailman/listinfo/ilug-cal-discuss > _______________________________________________ Ilug-cal-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://list.ilug-cal.org/mailman/listinfo/ilug-cal-discuss
