Hi All,

In trying to promote FOSS with the government of Karnataka, one of the problems is that Nudi does not work on any FOSS OS. However in getting Nudi to work on a FOSS OS, i guess there are various issues , some of which I have written below. Requesting the community to go through the same and let me know If I have captured the problem accurately and also let me know your thoughts on the solutions.

There is a way to make Nudi work on a FOSS distro by using SCIM I guess, but that will mean that we have to implement Nudi in its existing format which is not in Unicode. On the other hand, to move Nudi to Unicode, it has to be done only by the KGP, soemthing which we dont know if they are willing to do.

Now assuming that we get KGP to move Nudi to Unicode(and make it free and open) i guess there are some problems with rendering kannada on unicode(some things like arkavottu will not work? ), also the other issue being that we need someone to support Nudi continuously as Fedora,Ubuntu,Debian etc keep releasing newer versions right?

Please do let me know your thoughts.

Thanks, Vinay.

Vinay Sreenivasa IT for Change 91-98805-95032 vinay@itforchange.net

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