[Wikimediaindia-l] Indic languages & unicode issues.

2010-12-26 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
Hi all, Happened to see Gerard's blog post on issues with Malayalam Wikipedia & Unicode upgrade to 5.1 http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2010/12/malayalam-enigma.html While traffic to websites ( yes, including Wikipedia ) is primary driven by search traffic ,apparently this had a negative effect

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic languages & unicode issues.

2010-12-26 Thread Hari Prasad Nadig
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 7:43 PM, CherianTinu Abraham wrote: > Hi all, > Happened to see Gerard's blog post on issues with Malayalam Wikipedia > & Unicode upgrade to 5.1 > http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2010/12/malayalam-enigma.html While > traffic to websites ( yes, including Wikipedia ) is p

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic languages & unicode issues.

2010-12-26 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 7:43 PM, CherianTinu Abraham wrote: > Hi all, > Happened to see Gerard's blog post on issues with Malayalam Wikipedia > & Unicode upgrade to > 5.1 http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2010/12/malayalam-enigma.html The issue is very complex. There were heated debates around

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic languages & unicode issues.

2010-12-26 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
pression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture - Original Message > From: Santhosh Thottingal > To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. > > Sent: Sun, December 26, 2010 10:28:17 PM > Su

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic languages & unicode issues.

2010-12-28 Thread Ragib Hasan
t merely a medium for > the > expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." > - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture > > > > - Original Message ---- >> From: Santhosh Thottingal >> To: Discussion list on Indian language pro

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic languages & unicode issues.

2010-12-28 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
's Turing Award Lecture - Original Message > From: Ragib Hasan > To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. > > Sent: Wed, December 29, 2010 10:23:06 AM > Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic languages & unicode issues. > > I'm

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic languages & unicode issues.

2010-12-29 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
BalaSundaraRaman > To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. > > Cc: Wikita > Sent: Wed, December 29, 2010 11:34:06 AM > Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic languages & unicode issues. > > Ragib, > > (copied Tamil Wiki list) >

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic languages & unicode issues.

2010-12-29 Thread santhosh . thottingal
> Update: A Tamil Wikipedian, Mahir, went to the core of the issue that I > cited in > my previous email and identified that the issue in that instance was due > to the > superfluous use of the zero width non-joiner HTML entity. We're going to > file a > bug asking Mediwiki to chomp those entities

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic languages & unicode issues.

2010-12-29 Thread BalaSundaraRaman
th generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture - Original Message > From: "santhosh.thottin...@gmail.com" > To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. > > Sent: Wed, December 29, 2010 3:23:37 PM > Subject: