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