Unlike what developers believe, I think this is where webfonts can be
applicable.
On Wednesday 31 July 2013 11:54 AM, Vishnu t wrote:
Yes Bishakha. Konkani is one of the few languages in
India that has
the Script controversy. In fact it also makes it a huge challenge to
develop Konkani Wikipedia.
We have discussed some of these aspects in our Konkani Wikipedia
work-plan [1]. Also recently during our (CISA2K) visit to Goa almost
everyone wanted to know how Wikipedia could address this issue? For
instance, see the Herald - Goa newspaper on Konkani Wikipedia [2]. On
the same list a while ago, Santhosh Thottingal pointed to a very
useful solution, Automatic conversion in Konkani Language, that he
proposed sometime ago [3].
We are hoping to build a Konkani Wikipedia community first in the
coming months, who could then arrive at a solution and work with the
WMF Language Engineering Team. It will be a fascinating
cultural-historical problem to look at how it gets addressed on an
Open Knowledge platform like the Wikipedia.
Best,
Vishnu
[1]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_April_20…
[2]
http://www.epaperoheraldo.in/Details.aspx?id=10085&boxid=173254781&…
[3]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Automatic_conversion_in_Konkani_language
On 31 July 2013 09:51, Bishakha Datta <bishakhadatta(a)gmail.com
<mailto:bishakhadatta@gmail.com>> wrote:
I remember Hari Prasad Nadig presenting on this at Wikimania Haifa
in 2011, and found it fascinating.
http://www.epw.in/web-exclusives/konkani-script-controversy.html
Best
Bishakha
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