[Kannada] Petition to kannada newspapers ?

Sat Feb 5 02:59:09 PST 2005

Namaskaara,

AFAIK, Prajavani is seriously considering Unicode option. 

But look at the hindrances as of now-

1.    None of the DTP packages like Quark, PageMaker, Photoshop, CorelDraw, etc. support Unicode compliant Indic opentype fonts

2.    There are not many good publishing quality opentype fonts available for Kannada

3.    Old systems like Windows 98 do not support Unicode Kannada/Indic

Solutions:

1.    Prajavani and other leading publications and also leading publishers should pressurize the DTP software vendors to provide support for Indic opentype fonts and Unicode.

2.    Publishers, software makers like Microsoft, Adobe, Quark, Govt, etc. should fund the development of Kannada opentype fonts and release them in public domain.

3.    Windows 98 with IE6 can display Kannada Unicode web-sites employing dynamic fonts. However they can not enter Kannada Unicode text into the web-sites (forms). 

Regards,

sigONa,

Pavanaja  

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> -----Original Message-----

> From: kannada-bounces at sharma-home.net [mailto:kannada-bounces at sharma-

> home.net] On Behalf Of Kiran B.R.

> Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 11:20 AM

> To: Kannada computing list

> Subject: Re: [Kannada] Petition to kannada newspapers ?

> 

> Was the petition sent by snailmail to the papers? These papers are for

> all practical purposes paper papers :-)

> 

> Cheers

> Kiran

> 

> 

> On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 21:38:32 -0800, Arun Sharma <arun at sharma-home.net>

> wrote:

> >

> > A month after the petition was sent out, there has been no response from

> > any of the publishers below. I suspect incompetence rather than malice

> here.

> >

> > Someone brought this article to my notice:

> >

> > http://www.prajavani.net/feb042005/46142005204.php

> >

> > ಯೂನಿಕೋಡ್ ವ್ಯವಸ್ಥೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕಾರ್ಯ ನಿರ್ವಹಿಸಲು ಅರ್ಹವಾಗಿರುವ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶವನ್ನೇ ಸರಕಾರ ಕೊಂಡುಕೊಳ್ಳಬೇಕು

> > ಎಂದು ಆಗ್ರಹಿಸಿದರು...

> >

> > But what about the prajavani website itself? I'm more inclined to start

> > some guerilla warfare here. How about mirroring these websites in

> > Unicode on say - kannada.sf.net?

> >

> > Once it becomes popular, the lawyers may come after us. But then, at

> > least we'd have gotten their attention.

> >

> > Any better suggestions?

> >

> >         -Arun

> >

> > Arun Sharma wrote:

> > > On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 11:10:15AM -0800, Arun Sharma wrote:

> > >

> > >>>>I agree. I am with you. Anyone else?

> > >>>>

> > >>>

> > >>>I've created an initial text here:

> > >>>

> > >>>http://www.petitiononline.com/k111304/petition.html

> > >>>

> > >>

> > >>[...]

> > >>

> > >>The petition has 84 signatures now. I'll give it another week to get

> more

> > >>people to sign-on before forwarding the URL to the relevant

> publishers.

> > >>

> > >

> > >

> > > I've forwarded the petition to the editors at:

> > >

> > > - prajavani

> > > - udayavani

> > > - kannada prabha

> > > - taranga

> > > - sanjevani

> > >

> > > Thank you for your support! And please let me know if you want me to

> > > send it to any other editors I may have missed out.

> > >

> > >       -Arun

> >

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