Re: Any chance you could help this guy? [Re: UML module hackery(fwd)] (fwd)

[Alan Horkan <horkana tcd ie>]

only about a week since this question was asked but anyway.

see anser below.


 --- Alan Horkan <horkana@tcd.ie> wrote: >

> As the most expert person I know when it comes to
> linguistics,
> localisation and internationalisation issues i was
> wondering if perhaps
> you could help me answer this guys question.
>
> I will forward your reply to the Dia mailing list.


> > > I think this mostly affects
> > > languages with complex ligature and letter form
> rules, ie Arabic,
> > > Devanagri or Thai;
> >
> > Point of order, Mr. President.  Devanagri is the
> script and Hindi is the
> > language.  :)


> > P.S. BTW, have you come across Tamil fonts
> anywhere, or a Tamil IM?  I
> > haven't gotten any further than
> http://www.aczone.com/itrans/, but maybe
> > there's a more promising effort?



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "[iso-8859-1] Andrew Dunbar" <hippietrail@yahoo.com>

Subject: Re: Any chance you could help this guy?  [Re: UML module hackery
    (fwd)] (fwd)

Windows 2000 and Windows XP come with some very good
Tamil fonts, but I don't know the names of the fonts
off the top of my head sorry.
Also you don't need an IME (input method editor) for
Tamil or any other Indic script.  IMEs are only needed
for non-alphabetic scripts like Chinese, Japanese, and
Korean.
All you need is a keyboard layout.  Windows 2000 and
XP come with these too.  Apparently Indic keyboards
are
all based on a standard known as "Inscript" - you
should be able to find keyboard layouts for Linux too
if you do some Google searches.
One free Tamil font I can think of is Code2000 but I'm
not sure if it has all the ligature support.  The
Windows 2000/XP fonts definitely do though.

Sorry I couldn't be any more specific right now but
I hope this helps a little.

Andrew Dunbar.