<div dir="ltr">Dear Sir,<div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">>>The paper you cite is over a decade old. Much of the "plumbing" of</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">>>Linux has undergone a bit of change since then.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"> 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 </font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> "</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Much of the "plumbing" of </span><font face="arial, sans-serif">Linux has undergone a bit of change since then". Can you cite the part of the kernel you are referring to. </font></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">>>I am not inclined to ask why the kernel should have language keyboard support</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>
</span></div><div style><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Imagine all the icons on your desktop are in your regional language. All the commands that you type are in you regional language.</span></div>
<div style><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">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.</span></div>
<div style><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div style>Regards,</div><div style>Saket Sinha</div><div style><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sankarshan.mukhopadhyay@gmail.com" target="_blank">sankarshan.mukhopadhyay@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 9:17 PM, saket sinha <<a href="mailto:saket.sinha89@gmail.com">saket.sinha89@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> According to a study previously done, in order to implement Indian script in<br>
> an Linux based Operating system, a many to one font-glyph relation has to be<br>
> implemented. Please visit this link to verify my statement<br>
> <a href="http://www.geocities.ws/ratheeshvadhyar/ratheesh-thesis.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.geocities.ws/ratheeshvadhyar/ratheesh-thesis.pdf</a><br>
<br>
</div>The paper you cite is over a decade old. Much of the "plumbing" of<br>
Linux has undergone a bit of change since then.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> In Linux console, only English, Latin languages etc. have been supported.<br>
<br>
</div>Yes. Although I've never quite figured out the upside of having<br>
non-Latin language support, this has been the holy grail for a while.<br>
<<a href="http://indiclanguagecomputing.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/devanagari-support-on-gnome-terminal/" target="_blank">http://indiclanguagecomputing.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/devanagari-support-on-gnome-terminal/</a>><br>
is one approach towards solving this. And yet, this is around 2 years<br>
old.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> No support is their for Indian languages <a href="http://i.e.no" target="_blank">i.e.no</a> Indian language keyboard<br>
> support is available inside the kernel.What I mean to say is that the key<br>
> buttons we press generate some encrypted code which we map to English<br>
> alphabets like A, B, C.<br>
<br>
</div>I am not inclined to ask why the kernel should have language keyboard support.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Now suppose you want to enable Hindi keyboard. Instead of A you use some<br>
> Hindi alphabet.<br>
> Externally you would change the keypad 'A' to hindi alphabet but inside the<br>
> kernel you will have to map the encrypted code( that in generated on<br>
> pressing 'A' keypad) to that Hindi character.<br>
><br>
> But this is possible with narrow Hindi alphabets which follow 1 to 1<br>
> relation between font and glyph.<br>
><br>
> Suppose you have a wide character, then the relation between glyph to font<br>
> is many to one relation. Now this implenataion is what we are trying to<br>
> implement in BOSS-MOOL project.<br>
<br>
</div>I have provided a short objective of the project idea. I would look<br>
forward to your proposal.<br>
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sankarshan mukhopadhyay<br>
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