Open Source Computing in Indian languages
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| So far Indian languages have received a rather step-motherly treatment
| in computing - a field created largely for the 26 alphabets of the
| Roman script rather than more complex Asian scripts.
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| "Installing an additional language like Hindi now needs a mere 15
| minutes (of internet connectivity) with a 256 kbps broadband
| connection," says Srivastava.
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http://www.tech2.com/india/news/general/open-source-computing-in-indian-languages/4810/0
Related:
BOSS Linux makes new users feel at home
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| BOSS Linux is a single-CD Debian-based distribution primarily designed
| for an Indian language user, though everything from the installer to
| the desktop defaults to English. BOSS 1.1, which was released last
| month by the Indian government-sponsored National Resource Center
| for Free/Open Source Software (NRCFOSS), includes several utilities
| and desktop enhancements, such as a document converter and the
| 3-D desktop Beryl, which make it a very usable distro, despite
| a few rough edges.
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http://distrocenter.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/03/12/1631206&from=rss
BharateeyaOO.o: Enabling OpenOffice.org for India
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| Today as it stands, BharateeyaOO.o has completed localization of OOo
| in about 15 languages in its labs, of which about 5 are community
| supported. These languages are, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati,
| Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Marathi, Mythili,
| Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu.
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| Of these about 10 languages have already been submitted upstream
| as patches. OOo 2.1 has support for about 10 languages in its
| source. Our aim is to complete OOo in all 22 scheduled Indian
| languages by December 2007 and we are bang on schedule.
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http://www.openoffice.org/editorial/bharateeyaooo.html
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