From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed May 01 2002 - 23:20:15 EDT
--- Sambit Basu <basusambit@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hello
Andrew,
>
> I came accross your message in sco.culture.bengali.
> I
> am myself a developer. I wrote couple of stand-alone
> program for Bengali transliteration, one online
> version of it and so forth. Of late I was thinking
That sounds cool. I wrote an ISCII importer and
exporter for AbiWord but it only supports Hindi so far
since I don't think anybody but me has used it (:
I also plan to write a "universal transliterator" as
part of my other project, Linguaphile - probably like
the transliteration that ICU does but more language
aware.
> of
> ways to extend Abiword to support Bengali. However I
> am yet to investigate on that to see the licensing
> type etc.
It's GPL - the best license there is!
> Given your effort, I will be more than happy to be a
> part of the development group, contingent upon your
> requirement for the time commitment.
Everybody gives the time they can afford to give and
everybody understands this.
> Regarding the translated phrase, what exactly do you
> mean by Unicode text? I can send you a gif/jpg too.
Unicode supports Bengali and just about every other
script. If you have Windows 2000 or later you can
probably just type it into notepad and save it. If
you don't know how to do this, a clear gif/jpeg is the
next best because I can use the Unicode charts to
figure it out for myself.
Thanks for your interest! Andrew Dunbar.
> Thanks,
> - Sambit
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hippietrail" <hippietrail@yahoo.com>
> Newsgroups: soc.culture.bengali
> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 11:47 PM
> Subject: Bengali translation help
>
>
> > I work on the free cross-platform word processor
> Abiword. You might have
> > heard of it. We plan to add support for the
> Bengali
> language. Get it
> > from http://www.abisource.com
> > We're creating a test file to show or support for
> multiple languages and
> > we'd like the following English sentence
> translated
> into Bengali please:
> > "When the world wants to talk, it speaks Unicode."
> >
> > Send Unicode text or a clear gif/jpg so I can work
> out the Unicode please.
> >
> > Thanks in advance. Andrew Dunbar.
>
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