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Goodbye LJ!
Good Bye Livejournal..
I am moving to my new home : http://thottingal.in/blog
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Openoffice Indic Regional Language group
We just formed Indic Regional Language group for Openoffice. This is as per the Openoffice Native Language Consortium Plans. The objectives of such groups can be read from here. Basically the group is meant for better coordination among Indic languages to make Openoffice experience in our language better.
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Python isalpha is buggy
This code
#!/usr/bin/env python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- ml_string=u"സന്തോഷ് हिन्दी" for ch in ml_string: if(ch.isalpha()): print ch
gives this output
സ ന ത ഷ ह न द And fails for all mathra signs of Indian languages. This is a known bug in glibc ( Read more... ) -
N-gram Visualization Experiment
Following image shows the python-graphviz generated visualization of N-Gram representation of first paragraph this article from Hindi wikipedia. The image represents the possible paths through which a sentence can be constructed if we start from a word भारत.
Click to view the enlarged image
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Localization: What are we missing?
[This blog post is kind of self criticism and written not forgetting the valuable contribution that l10n communities are doing ( Read more... ) -
Updates...
- Praveen prepared videos from the matrix screen savers in 6 languages
- This video is translated to Malayalam. For those who are interested in how to do that refer this
- I prepared the glibc collation table for Malayalam . But still some more bugs to be fixed
- We friends are working on adding Saka year system to KDE calendar system and it is almost ( Read more... )
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KDE Indic Screensavers
I ported all of the Matrix screensavers with Indian language glyphs to KDE4. For details about the screensavers please read:
Download the binary packages: Deb package, and RPM package
There are 6 screensavers in that package, for Malayalam, Hindi, Oriya , Bengali, Tamil and Gujarati. ( Read more... ) -
Hyphenation of Indian Languages in Webpages
In my last blogpost I explained hyphenation of Indian language text in openoffice. In this blogpost I will explain how hyphenation can be done in webpages.
As I explained importance of hyphenation come into picture when we justify the text. The length of the lines are controlled by the parent tags.... Unicode had defined a special character called ( Read more... ) -
Hyphenation of Indian Languages and Openoffice
What is Hiphenation?
Hyphenation is the process inserting hyphens in between the syllables of a word so that when the text is justified, maximum space is utilized.
Hiphenation is an important feature that DTP softwares provide. For Indian languages there is no good DTP softwares available. XeTex is the only choice to work with unicode and ( Read more... )
