Hi
I want with this email to correct a few points which were many times in the past wrong communicated.
On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 18:32:47 +0530, Shiju Alex shijualexonline@gmail.com wrote:
It is sad to find that still Kiwix is not in a state where we can create the CD/DVD with out the developer/expert support. But it is good to see that the issue with non-latin scripts/fonts are fixed.
The Kiwix project has being releasing CDs/DVDs since more than 4 years: we have a lot of know-how and tools to do that. All what we have done in Kiwix is free software and easily downloadable and I answer to every questions about it. I admit they are tools which are not trivial to understand... but I have to say also, a big part of the complexity is in the Mediawiki code tweaks. Developing his own full solution because you have difficulties to understand the existing one seems to me to be simply a wrong approach. As far as I know, there is nothing (excepting the dynamic transliteration in the search field) that Kiwix does not provide that your solution provides. Kiwix has no known issue (also last year) specific to non-latin languages, if you know one please make a bug report. I have released in the past DVDs in Farsi and Burmese and both run well.
The added value of the Malayalam CD is IMO not in the software but in the content and the work behind.
If you want to enjoy both (Kiwix+Malayalam selection), simply download the ZIM file of the Malayalam CD content here: http://tmp.kiwix.org/zim/0.9/wikipedia_ml_500+_05_2010_beta2.zim
... I'm sure you have Kiwix already installed ;)
Emmanuel