GOOD startup . Carry on. :-) SaMaR
----- Original Message ---- From: Debayan Banerjee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, 16 May, 2008 10:00:15 PM Subject: Re: [dgplug-users] hello I am Debayan Banerjee. I am 3rd year engineering student at NIT Durgapur. I have experimented a lot with L10N work and hence with all kinds of different input methods. I was interested in finding the simplest possible indic setup on a windows box coz people in my college mostly use windows. I, with a lot of help from Amitakhya Phukan, the Assamese language maintainer of Gnome, finally settled with a combinbation of Baraha+Poedit+Windows east Asian language pack. Ofcourse, the simplest input method i found was phonetic. On Linux i was using Yudit. To slightly drift off-topic, translation as it exists now is too complicated. It has to be a web interface based exercise so that people simply log on to a webpage and start typing. The client side script on the webpage must take care of the transliteration. I have tried persuading people to translate, and its very difficult the way it is right now. I understand that it causes some problems with credits being lost, but that is a problem that has to be ironed out. I just wish there were a webpage, where you could upload .po files, make changes, and then redownload it. I did suggest Mr. Amitakhya to put up a Pootle based webpage, and he is working on it i think. In any case we plan to set one up in the future. Regards, Debayan Banerjee http://debayan.wordpress.com On 15/05/2008, Muralidhar Kamidi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi peekay, Thanks for the mail. I am Muralidhar based in a remote village of Andhrapradesh. I have very limited knowledge of both Linux and input methods: much of it gathered from books and magazines: both online and offline. I am only an end user and not an expert in either area. However SCIM is what I use on my desktop. I speak Telugu, and had seen at least 3 keymaps for the language: inscript, RTS (Rice Transliteration Scheme) and Phonetic. I prefer RTS as it allows me to type in English and maps the text into Telugu. About me: I am a mech. engineer by education (B.Tech.) and a teacher by profession (earlier taught Physics, Thermodynamics, Engineering Drawing at several levels). My last two jobs were with HCL and CSS group: the former as a tech support exec and the latter as a Linux Trainer (it is here that I realised that a desktop user experience is not sufficient to train corporate trainees on enterprise apps). At the moment, I am looking to work from home as a freelance writer and trainer. That's it. Cheers, Muralidhar On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 05:29 +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > peekay wrote: > > > i am based in calcutta .. working on implementing debian based BharatOSS > > by CDAC > > age 56 yrs .. expert in windows .. now working on debian .. especially > > for making input > > in local indian languages much easier .. by changing the keymap to a > > simpler one than inscript > > This is an interesting work PK (where have you been all this while by > the way ?). Do you have any documents as to what your observations are > on the current input methods and what would work out to be a simpler > input method ? > > > > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dgplug.org/listinfo.cgi/users-dgplug.org -- BE INTELLIGENT, USE LINUX Did you know? You can CHAT without downloading messenger. Go to http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/webmessengerpromo.php/
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