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From: Pravin Satpute <psatpute(a)redhat.com>
To: UTRRS Developer Mailing List <utrrs-devel(a)lists.fedorahosted.org>
Sent: Friday, February 1, 2013 1:36 PM
Subject: Re: adding more languages...
On 01/31/2013 01:01 AM, Aman Alam wrote:
> ਸੋਮਵਾਰ 28 ਜਨਵਰੀ 2013 07:55 ਸਵੇਰੇ ਨੂੰ, Satyabrata Maitra ਨੇ ਲਿਖਿਆ:
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Aman Alam" <apreet.alam(a)gmail.com>
>> To: utrrs-devel(a)lists.fedorahosted.org
>> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 12:57:29 AM
>> Subject: adding more languages...
>>
>> hi
>> our UTRRS [1] project need to expand for more languages, specially we
>> can start with few Asian languages (currently UTRRS only supports Indian
>> Languages). For start we can add Minimum Unicode code point for those
>> languages. Before that we can start review current status and discuss
>> about future plans.
>>
>> if you have any thoughts or ideas, we can start sharing now.
>>
>> Hi Team
>>
>> In adding more Asian languages like Chinese, Japanese, Korean means
>> first of all, we need to add the codepoints as Aman mentioned,
>> according to the Unicode Chart. But these symbolic languages has no
>> GSUB or GPOS as such. As I discussed with Aman, we can try to add
>> some of the locales which follows Bramhi scripts like Thai,
>> Vietnamese or so, as the grammatical rules for these locales more or
>> less like Indic locales in his opinion. If so, then we can add the
>> codepoints of these locales first and then work on adding GSUB or
>> GPOS if exists with research and communicating with the corresponding
>> communities.
>>
> yes, CJK may not required GSUB or GPOS, so south-east-asian Scripts
> can be good start
>
>> We have another task for Indic locales pending which is adding 3rd or
>> above level of conjuncts (GSUB). We need to discuss and request LMs
>> to submit list of 3rd or more levels of conjuncts, in case there are
>> any presence of such list in their respective locales and currently
>> not present in UTRRS instance.
>>
> few 3 or 4 combinations are already there, which need to separate out
> to make data uniform.
From Indic perspective i think we can target Indian 22 Office language
for this year.
Regards,
Pravin Satpute
That is good if we can have at least 22 Indic language. But we should not limit to only
22, if any community from anywhere in the globe is eager to help us to do their language,
we should do their on priority. Sindhi, Magahi, Bhojpuri etc community may take interest
in working with UTRRS.
I would like to see Maithili in UTRRS and Maithili community will be glad to help you
people if you need any.
Rajesh