Arjuna, while I don't really understand what is the ultimate aim, I sincerely hope that this will result in Indic support across mobile devices. On 12/12/2011, Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.baindur(a)gmail.com> wrote: -- Sent from my mobile device Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:59 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan &lt;parakara.ghoda(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Traditionally, on the desktop devices, Indic support has generally meant the ability to do the following: - display/render - print - input The underlying software architecture, which is fashionably called the "plumbing", has been present and keeps lock-step with the currently available and published standards and specifications. Input forms an interesting aspect because of the diverse nature of possibilities provided and requested - an example could be the variety of the keyboard layouts available. While a myriad variety in the keyboard layouts is possible on a standard physical keyboard (hardware), such variety is a bit difficult to attain on the mobile device hardware having an actual physical keyboard. Even in the case of mobile devices with an on-screen keyboard, the ability to standardize on a specific set of layouts, based on various factors (eg. computation of the highest used key combinations) would be of immense use. At this stage, the only aspect I'd request to be made clear is how does one participate in the effort. For example, reading through the current list of participants I don't see Google (as an example). It would be nicer to have distributions participate because they allow the quickest path to reference implementation of standards. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog>