Kannada Typepad
Aye.. Great Stuff this. Wanted to write about a while back …but that bit of sector in my brain got evaporated all by itself.
I saw the admin of this site (?.. Not sure though) Posting a comment here..Perpetrating this rather delayed recall.
Some great JavaScript work there.. I would’ve loved to have done something like this… and I did try something similar at one time, But rather unsuccessfully so.
In any case, this is super-cool. I wish they could port this as the default editor to whatever Sampada.net uses.. TinyMCE or FCKEditor I expect, Too lazy to confirm now. The last I saw, Sampada.net needed that Convertor to render input to Kannada Unicode.
I wonder if Sampada is still running Drupal 4.6..Nothing has changed so far as I know.. Great work by Mr HPN nonetheless, and especially with the Kannada Wikipedia too.
August 22, 2007 at 5:57 pm
No Sir, Sampada has been running on 5.x for a long time now. I do most of what I do with Sampada in my free time, so it is not as much sophisticated customizations as I’d like it to be. (We don’t make anything out of it as well, its just a hobby project).
If you’re talking about the Converter page on Sampada in the 4th paragraph, that is not completely my work. I took the code from:
http://www.iit.edu/~laksvij/language/
and modified the mapping to suit Baraha like input. In fact, there have been various versions of JS input on the Internet for Indic languages. The ones I liked the most have been laksvij’s little script and Padma (the latter of which has become a full fledged plugin for Mozilla/firefox/Thunderbird).