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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Tamil translation of kdelibs.po
From:       Sivakumar Shanmugasundaram <sshanmu () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2000-03-21 0:54:10
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--- Hans Petter Bieker <bieker@stud.ntnu.no> wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Thuraiappah Vaseeharan wrote:
> 
> > What Stephan says is correct. I think the problem
> is that the mapping
> > between the Unicode Tamil encoding and TSCII is
> not one-to-one. Apparently
> > the state govt. of Tamil Nadu (in India), has
> joined the Unicode
> > consortium to get the encoding changed in future
> versions. Until this
> 
> One to one? According to the TSCII to Unicode
> mapping table the only
> undefined Tamil glyph in Unicode is "TAMIL GRANTHA
> SRI". What's the
> problem with composed glyphs?
> 

TSCII is just like Latin1. the chars 0-127 are the
same as ASCII. Only the higher bits (128-255) have
different glyphs than Latin1. Changing the font to
appropriate TSCII tamil font will display the required
glyph. If that is the case, can we use 'recode' with
the Latin1 option to convert the desktop.po file to
UTF8?

Siva

> > About Recode, KBabel and so on: I'm sure TSCII can
> be made to work with
> > these tools. TSCII just maps the tamil glyphs to
> the high ASCII range
> > (128-256). So any tools/programs that are 8-bit
> clean should work with
> 
> If you want recode to work with TSCII you would have
> to add
> support for it. KBabel doesn't need special hacks
> for different
> encoding, but if you want TSCII support in KDE (or
> Qt in
> general) you would have to write a QTSCIICodec
> class. (I can help you if
> you don't know how. Just write a mail.)
> 
> Talking about different encodings: What happend to
> the GB2312
> encoding? Will be be supported in Qt 2.2? If not,
> Chinese users will have
> to patch Qt.
> 
> -bieker-
> 
> Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
> Engineering Cybernetics
>                  bieker@stud.ntnu.no /
> bieker@kde.org
> 
> 

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