hi kingsley, i prefer a tamil font encoding called TAM (Tamil
Monolingual), which is TN govt-approved and also bugless, so, that's the
future. the other encodings are very buggy and unicode is out of the
question since it's based on devanagri script. there's a lot of politics
about tamil font encoding... so the only chance i have seems to be text,
or html which is fine with me. but i wanted to make sure that this faq
gets hosted in linuxdoc.org.
- Diwakar
Kingsly John wrote:
>
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Diwakar Ranganathan wrote:
>
> |comrades, i've written a mini Linux FAQ in Tamil. i
> Cool!
>
> |i have no chance of wordprocessing in Tamil in linux
> |right now. therefore, using Lyx or any other proggie
> |to prepare the Tamil FAQ using the font (with an
> |encoding which is not supported by any Tamil editor
> |for Linux) is an impossible task for me.
> Ensure that the font you use is a standard one... and is unicode
> compliant.
>
> IMO Emacs has a Devnagari mode... so it could be extended !
>
> |i'd like to know if plain text is ok. i subscribed to
>
> Something is better than nothing.... but it should be possible for ur
> target audience to see the stuff without having to install extra software
> etc. and you can always convert it into html.
>
> Kingsly
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