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
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Harshita wrote:
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.
Can you ensure that there's a report of this also available along with what converters are available for download under appropriate free licenses ?
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