[Project-ideas] GSOC 2013 mentorship request

[saket sinha]

Dear Sir,

>>The paper you cite is over a decade old. Much of the "plumbing" of
>>Linux has undergone a bit of change since then.
 I specifically  talk about the console driver which is
in linux/drivers/char/vt.c which has not changed till kernel 3.5.4.I mean
it still behaves with the similar behaviour as described in the reseach
paper. I do not know what you mean by  "Much of the "plumbing" of Linux has
undergone a bit of change since then". Can you cite the part of the kernel
you are referring to.

>>I am not inclined to ask why the kernel should have language keyboard
support
Imagine all the icons on your desktop are in your regional language. All
the commands that you type are in you regional language.
This has a wide implementation in a country like India. Further, if we
support multi language support at the driver level, applications can
directly inherit these scripts. Imagine applications like Whatsapp in your
regional languages.

Regards,
Saket Sinha




On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <
sankarshan.mukhopadhyay at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 9:17 PM, saket sinha <saket.sinha89 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 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
>
> The paper you cite is over a decade old. Much of the "plumbing" of
> Linux has undergone a bit of change since then.
>
> > In Linux console, only English, Latin languages etc. have been supported.
>
> Yes. Although I've never quite figured out the upside of having
> non-Latin language support, this has been the holy grail for a while.
> <
> http://indiclanguagecomputing.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/devanagari-support-on-gnome-terminal/
> >
> is one approach towards solving this. And yet, this is around 2 years
> old.
>
> >  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.
>
> I am not inclined to ask why the kernel should have language keyboard
> support.
>
> > 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.
>
> I have provided a short objective of the project idea. I would look
> forward to your proposal.
>
>
>
> --
> sankarshan mukhopadhyay
> <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan>
>
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