From harshita at atc.tcs.com Thu Apr 5 23:05:03 2007 From: harshita at atc.tcs.com (Harshita) Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 11:35:03 +0530 Subject: [Padma] Workshop on Font Encoding Converters Message-ID: <1175839504.24024.0.camel@localhost> Dear all, This is to inform you that there is a workshop on Font Encoding Converters which is going to be held on 6th April, from 7pm to 10pm in IIIT, Gachibowli, Hyderabad. This might be the late invitation, but we will be glad if you attend the workshop and make it a successful event. We are looking for your valuable suggestions. A brief introduction about the workshop is given below. Harshita, Swecha Telugu Localistation Team Phone: 9440849626 P.S: Dinner and transportation shall be arranged by IIIT. Please contact us for further details. Introduction about the workshop: Duration: 3 hours Time: 7pm to 10pm Date: 6th April, 2007 Location: International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad For quite some time now, non-standard encodings introduced by proprietary fonts developers have caused hurdles to information processing both for end users and researches alike. Vast amounts of data is locked up in these non-standard encodings. Lack of wide-spread usage of fonts, applications and tools that are based on Unicode technologies has lead to continued production of the content in these "font encodings". Numerous efforts have been made in the past and continue to be made to address this problem. Community based approaches like Padma Firefox Extension have made great strides in solving this issue. Time has come to standardise the converters. There are also many gaps to be filled in before the converters can be put to use universally. Agenda: * Review the current status of various font encoding converters * Discuss various techniques for reverse engineering font encodings * Attempt to bring all efforts on font encoding converters under one umbrella * Understand requirements of various groups for font encoding converters: ** What encodings are to be handled? ** Need a programming API? ** Need command line/GUI tools? ** What are the operating environments? * Chalk out future activity * Gather help from the involved teams in the following areas: ** Language expertise, reverse engineering and verification ** Programming, documentation and packaging From harshita at atc.tcs.com Thu Apr 5 05:01:13 2007 From: harshita at atc.tcs.com (harshita at atc.tcs.com) Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 17:31:13 +0530 (IST) Subject: [Padma] Workshop on Font Encoding Converters Message-ID: <46321.192.168.36.129.1175774473.squirrel@www.atc.tcs.com> Dear all, This is to inform you that there is a workshop on Font Encoding Converters which is going to be held on 6th April, from 7pm to 10pm in IIIT, Gachibowli, Hyderabad. This might be the late invitation, but we will be glad if you attend the workshop and make it a successful event. We are looking for your valuable suggestions. A brief introduction about the workshop is given below. Harshita, Swecha Telugu Localistation Team Phone: 9440849626 P.S: Dinner and transportation shall be arranged by IIIT. Please contact us for further details. Introduction about the workshop: Duration: 3 hours Time: 7pm to 10pm Date: 6th April, 2007 Location: International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad For quite some time now, non-standard encodings introduced by proprietary fonts developers have caused hurdles to information processing both for end users and researches alike. Vast amounts of data is locked up in these non-standard encodings. Lack of wide-spread usage of fonts, applications and tools that are based on Unicode technologies has lead to continued production of the content in these "font encodings". Numerous efforts have been made in the past and continue to be made to address this problem. Community based approaches like Padma Firefox Extension have made great strides in solving this issue. Time has come to standardise the converters. There are also many gaps to be filled in before the converters can be put to use universally. Agenda: * Review the current status of various font encoding converters * Discuss various techniques for reverse engineering font encodings * Attempt to bring all efforts on font encoding converters under one umbrella * Understand requirements of various groups for font encoding converters: ** What encodings are to be handled? ** Need a programming API? ** Need command line/GUI tools? ** What are the operating environments? * Chalk out future activity * Gather help from the involved teams in the following areas: ** Language expertise, reverse engineering and verification ** Programming, documentation and packaging From harshita at atc.tcs.com Wed Apr 11 06:52:39 2007 From: harshita at atc.tcs.com (Harshita) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:22:39 +0530 Subject: [Padma] Report of workshop on Font Encoding Converters Message-ID: <1176299559.32215.1.camel@box.atc.tcs.com> Hi all, A workshop on Font Encoding Converters was held on 6th April, 2007. Outline of the workshop proceedings: * Introduction to font encoding problem * Introduction on Padma Firefox extension (http://padma.mozdev.org) * Status of converters available in Padma (about 40 font families covered) * Unicode Convertion Gateway (http://uni.medhas.org and http://sf.net/projects/unigateway) * Discussion on the reverse engineering techniques applied to design a new converter * Introduction to Punjabi font converters developed by Gurpreet Lehal (about 40 font families covering 120 fonts) A discussion on future course of action lead to the following TODO list: * Setup central place for hosting software, documentation and collaborating effort * Documentation for existing font encoding converters * Documenting the list of font families and unsupported * Create a database of font to font family mappings * Create standard forms that can be filled by a typical user to help create font converter easily (possibly with a gui tool) * Create a C/C++ api * Create test documents to verify each converter * Explore OpenOffice integration * Develop more converters: ** Bengali: Bangsee Alpona, SolaimanLipi, Prothoma Adarshlipiexp, likhan ** Tamil: amudham, shree-tam-0802, tmnews, lt-tm-barani, webtamil, bamini ** Gujarati: Govinda, Surya, Divya ** Oriya: OR-TTSarala ** Malayalam: Shree-mal-0502, ** Devanagari: webdunia, yogeshweb, shree704, sushreeMJ, Boisakhi, Rupali, Satyajit, Shree-dev-0714, Shree-pudhari, MilleniumVarunWeb, Manjusha, ITRDeshdut ** Others: guruLipi, AnmolLipi TCS team working on Telugu GNU/Linux localisation and IIIT Hydearabad have decided to contribute efforts to fulfil the tasks at hand. Regards, Harshita