One important thing-
To read Kannada Unicode email (UTF-8 or
any other formats of Unicode, say UTF-16) the requirements are-
1. Unicode enabled OS like Windows XP,
2003 –need to enable Kannada in these OS OR Linux with Kannada enabled
2. Opentype font installed in the system.
In Windows XP and 2003, by enabling Kannada, the Kannada opentype font Tunga
gets installed. In Linux, you need to do this manually.
Details for Windows XP are available at http://www.bhashaindia.com/Patrons/Kannada/kannadaonwindows.htm
Details for Linux are available at http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Kannada_Support
(this site also has details for Baraha, Nudi, Win XP, etc)
sigONa,
Pavanaja
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Dr. U.B. Pavanaja
CEO, Vishva Kannada Softech
http://www.vishvakannada.com/
91-80-23309693, 91-9341980400
Think Globally,
From: wikikn-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org
[mailto:wikikn-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On
Behalf Of Hari Prasad Nadig
Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2005 12:52
PM
To: wikikn-l@wikipedia.org
Subject: [Wikikn-l (kannada
wikipedia)] UTF-8 and email
Hi folks,
Recently, I've been hearing from few of the members on this
list that they've not been able to read most conversations we exchange here
(which happen to be in utf-8 , unicode Kannada) and have been
seeing some garbage on their mailboxes. I wonder how many people have
been going through this experience and not even mentioned about it on the list.
Maybe that happens to be the reason for most members here not being active on
the list, as well.
Hence, I thought of sending this mail with a brief set of instructions on how
to read utf-8 encoded mails. Might serve as helpful piece of information
for many of you.
First of, for those who use webmail, let me tell you that gmail is your best
option. The Characterset on Gmail is utf-8 by default. Yahoo, hotmail,
rediffmail - all these donot have characterset set to utf-8. (You'll have to
manually change character set to utf-8 on your browser manually to view the
content - same while sending.. which could turn out to be quite irritating
thing to do)
For those who use standalone mail clients, make sure you've enabled utf-8 on
those. Almost all popular standalone clients support utf-8. On mail clients
like Thunderbird, utf-8 is the charset by default.
So, the next time you see garbled mail landing to your mailbox from the
wikikn-l list, make sure you check for this.
- h.p.
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http://www.hpnadig.net/blog/
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