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by Baiju M.
Original Post: Unicode may destroy Malayalam language in computer :(
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This is for the first time I am writing about Malayalam language in my blog. Unfortunately, this is about a catastrophe going to happen for our language :( . I created this blog for writing about my interests (Python,Zope etc.). I hope you will excuse this cross posted blog.
By breaking Unicode's basic principle, that, it will only inlclude basic characters of a language, now they are going to add charaters which are formed from other basic characters in Malayalam. You can read more about the issue here: http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/SMC/AtomicChilluIsUnacceptable and in this document: http://www.rachanamalayalam.org/docs/ChilluEncodingIsWrong.pdf . The changes are added to draft version of Unicode 5.1.0, so we still have some hope that it can be reverted. Please support us !
Some background: I started the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing project almost 7 years back while studying at NIT Calicut. Later, when Free Software Foundation of India started working on this project, I joined them to work on this project (as a Job). After I left FSF India, some others continued that project. Two years back a new team started working on this project, you can see details about this team at their wiki: http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/SMC . This is such a great team with good leaders. Now they are touching all areas of Malayalam computing: i18n,l10n and other software tools for Malayalam. I am no more involved in this project, but I used to follow up the developments.
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