Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Adding language support in Fedora

Lets say we want to add xy_XY language support in Fedora

Following is to do list for adding language support in Fedora from i18n point of view

1) Open Type, Unicode Based Font for xy_XY

2) Rendering Engine support for Unicode code points of xy_XY (pango, qt)

3) Some Basic IME's for xy_XY(m17n-db)

4) Locale File for xy_XY in glibc

5) Updating comps file for xy_XY

6) Adding xy_XY in GDM list

7) Updating s-c-l locale-list file for xy_XY

might be something missing but these are the major things

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Kashmiri Draft for Unicode Proposal

link for draft

http://pravins.fedorapeople.org/Draft_Kashmiri_Proposal.pdf

many many thanks for this draft to
Mr. M.K. Raina
Mr. Raman Kaul
and
Mr. Rakesh Pandit

without there valuable input it was never possible to do research on Kashmiri language also to www.koshur.org site almost everything is available there

I have contacted Michael Everson from Unicode for this
and he is happy with this and going to add proposal form to this draft

I hope soon it will get included in Unicode Devanagari Plane