From kde-i18n-doc  Thu Jun 20 09:06:22 2002
From: Pramod <pramodleo () yahoo ! co ! uk>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 09:06:22 +0000
To: kde-i18n-doc
Subject: hindi gnome & indix project(was Re:hindi)
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Here is the Gnome-Hindi translation team for Hindi(http://indlinux.org/hindi/gnome/index.php). You(the person who started the tread) can direct your enquiries there.  

On Thursday 20 June 2002 01:32 pm, Lars Knoll wrote:
> I think a solution to this should be based on Xft/freetype, where we can
> get direct access to the fonts, we should not even try to make it work with
> non Xft based systems. Getting the glyphs from Xft is not the problem, but
> knowing which glyphs to use for the ligatures. The best solution would be
> to implement the open type solution MS uses, as we can then use all indic
> open type fonts available.
The guys at Indix Project(http://rohini.ncst.ernet.in/indix/) are trying to provide support for indic languages right at the X-server level, by modifying the X-server itself. Their server(indix) even has support for open-type fonts(http://rohini.ncst.ernet.in/indix/technical_details.html). But IMHO, it does seem too complicated & whether such a thing is really feasible in terms of stability, et al needs to be pondered. 
-Pramod.

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