Thanks for the update, Shiju. I'm able to read Tamil text on Opera Mini browser on my Nokia N72 (with some difficulty). It uses rendering "complex" scripts as images. However, editing is still a far cry.
- Sundar
"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
From: Shiju Alex shijualexonline@gmail.com To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tue, October 26, 2010 10:03:21 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mobile editing & reading of Wikipedia
Rendering of Malayalam script is very bad. Same might be the case with most of the other Indian scripts. (Devanagari might have reasonable support) So this site is of not much use to Malayalam as of now, even though we are regularly updating it.
We cannot expect much as of now since the majority of the software solutions focuses only on Latin script. Hope situation will improve as the contribution from the developers working in Indic language computing increases.
Shiju Alex
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 9:49 PM, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbecse@yahoo.com
wrote:
Ramesh,
Could you try http://ml.m.wikipedia.org/ from your phone? (Of course, it'll still need the fonts.) To my knowledge, Malayalam Wikipedia is the only Indian Wikipedia to have a mobile interface (I could be wrong). For Tamil Wikipedia, only the final steps are pending.
- Sundar
"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the
expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
From: Ramesh N G rameshng@gmail.com
To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tue, October 26, 2010 6:30:59 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mobile editing & reading of Wikipedia
Data charges definitely is coming down and will be coming down more with the 3G
war in India.
The support for other languages and unicode should be improved in the mobiles.
I have tried ml wikipedia in the Nokia E series with MiniOpera browser. It was
really a bad experience for me. The fonts are not properly displaying. Hope to
see more improvements especially on the unicode support and fonts in the mobile
browsers.
regards Ramesh ng
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikanth05@gmail.com
wrote:
I agree with Srikanth on this issue.
I have been using Wikipedia on my phone for over a year and a half, and have
even edited several articles from my phone.
On 26 October 2010 11:30, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik.lak@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:34, Gautam John gautam@prathambooks.org wrote:
Arjuna makes a good point on language support. As for the data costs,
don't some providers (I know MTS does) provide access to Wikipedia for free?
Have you used MTS free Wikipedia? I overheard they are falsely advertising but
actually it costs something. (like only en.wiki is free and data charges apply
for images on the article from commons). I am not very sure on this, anyone who
uses MTS can confirm. But i have to disagree with Arjuna and feel data charges
have come down significantly over a period of time now though may still not be
affordable to a common man on the street when compared to the dead low voice
tariff. More and more alternate ways of consuming Wikipedia on mobile needs to
be developed. I particularly find the Wikipedia layer on Google maps for mobile
useful while exploring unknown territories.
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