[stsf] [Fwd: [Devel] testing Indic languages in UTF8]

[Alexander Gelfenbain]

Thanks, it is interesting indeed.

AG

On Jun 1, 2004, at 23:21, Roland Mainz wrote:

>
> Hi!
>
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>
> The following posting may be interesting (at least for STSF testing...)
> ... :)
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [Devel] testing Indic languages in UTF8
> Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 09:36:33 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Werner LEMBERG <wl at gnu.org>
> Reply-To: devel at freetype.org
> To: unicode at unicode.org
> CC: devel at freetype.org
>
>
> The following has been posted recently to comp.os.linux.announce.  I
> think this is of interest for you too.
>
>
>     Werner
>
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>
> Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 05:22:29 CST
> From: Kalyana Krishnan <rkk at acharya.iitm.ac.in>
> Subject: Unicode test files for Indian languages
>
>    Unicode test files for Indian languages.
>
>    Systems Development Lab., IIT Madras, India is pleased
>    to announce a free service for preparing Unicode test files
>    (UTF-8) which may be used for testing Browsers and other
>    applications for their ability to handle Unicode.
>
>    A web interface is presented for submitting the text. To
>    allow text input from virtually any Browser, the familiar
>    ITRANS format is provided.
>
>    http://acharya.iitm.ac.in/demos/unicode_testview.html
>
>    The submitted text is returned as a UTF-8 html file so that
>    the rendering of the text by the Browser is immediately seen.
>    The result page also contains an image of the desired text
>    besides the Unicode part to permit verification of the rendering
>    of the text.
>
>    The interface could be used to generate text of one's choice
>    which may include conjunct aksharas and special symbols.
>    Though input in ITRANS, the text will be returned in one of nine
>    scripts: Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Devanagari, Bengali, Oriya, Telugu,
>    Kannada, Malayalam and Tamil.
>
>    Current rendering of Unicode text is far from satisfactory under
>    Linux (Mozilla or Opera) in respect of Devanagari. The demo will
>    be very useful to identify the problems.
>
>    For additional information, contact
>
>    rkk at acharya.iitm.ac.in
>
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Alexander Gelfenbain
User Experience / Globalization Engineering
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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