[Project-ideas] GSOC 2013 mentorship request

[saket sinha]

Dear Sir,

According to a study previously done, in order to implement Indian script
in an Linux based Operating system, a many to one font-glyph relation has
to be implemented. Please visit this link to verify my statement
http://www.geocities.ws/ratheeshvadhyar/ratheesh-thesis.pdf

In Linux console, only English, Latin languages etc. have been supported.

 No support is their for Indian languages i.e.no Indian language keyboard
support is available inside the kernel.What I mean to say is that the key
buttons we press generate some encrypted code which we map to English
alphabets like A, B, C.

Now suppose you want to enable Hindi keyboard. Instead of A you use some
Hindi alphabet.
Externally you would change the keypad 'A' to hindi alphabet but inside the
kernel you will have to map the encrypted code( that in generated on
pressing 'A' keypad) to that Hindi character.

But this is possible with narrow Hindi alphabets which follow 1 to 1
relation between font and glyph.

Suppose you have a wide character, then the relation between glyph to font
is many to one relation. Now this implenataion is what we are trying to
implement in BOSS-MOOL project.


Regards,
Saket Sinha






On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 9:02 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <
sankarshan.mukhopadhyay at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 8:51 PM, saket sinha <saket.sinha89 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > My questions related to this are-
> >
> > a). Does this project intend to study the relation between  Glyph and
> FONT
> > for a particular language?
>
> In a form of summarizing the idea for the project, yes. Given a
> specific font, the objective is to understand if it provides coverage
> for all valid glyphs for the script/language.
>
> > b). According to a study previously done, in order to implement Indian
> > script in an Linux based Operating system, a many to one font-glyph
> relation
> > has to be implemented. Please find the attached research paper to verify
> my
> > statement.
>
> The list is configured to scrub any attachments. You will have to
> upload it somewhere and share the URL.
>
> Could you also elaborate on what you mean by "implement Indian script
> in a Linux based Operating System"?
>
> >  2. With reference to " BOSS-MOOL- A Joint Initiative of DOS Lab IIT
> Madras
> > and CDAC Chennai" I only meant to say that we are trying to implement
> Indian
> > script support in Linux based on the concept above.
>
> Once you provide an explanation of the phrase "implement Indian script
> support" it would be easier for me to provide responses.
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> sankarshan mukhopadhyay
> <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan>
>
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