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Welcome to 'Malayalam'
Free Software localisation initiative for
malayalam. An project by Bureau of Industries Promotions -
Kerala in association with APDIP and FSF India.
Project aims to deliver softwares localised in Malayalam.
It also creates basic infrastructure required for further development
of software in Malayalam. Kerlites around the world will be
able to use their favourite Free Software in there mother tongue.
Software and computing becoming accessible to thousands of
English illiterate people in Kerala.
Hilights of the Project
- Development of Free Malayalam font
- Add support for Malayalam in GUI Toolkits
- Create input mechanism
- Study and Document font and encoding standards
- Create localised versions of applications
- Basic Desktop (Gnome)
- E-mail, Internet Browser, Instant Messaging etc
- Office applications (Wordprocessor, Spreadsheet
etc)
- Educational softwares etc
For instructions on installation
click Here
Translation of Technical words
Selected malayalam translation of commonly
used techincal words are available here.
Please read it and mail your suggestion to: malayalam at keltron.co.in
News
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Document:Translation
of technial words into malayalam
(26-1-2003) |
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Read the present list of translation used...
also give your suggestions.... to malayalam at keltron.co.in
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Document: OpenType Malayalam Rendering
- (25-1-2003) |
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Here are some screenshots
which render Malayalam OpenType fonts. |
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Document: Malayalam Locale -
(25-1-2003) |
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Malayalam locale is available here. |
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Document: Open Office Malayalam
- (25-8-2002) |
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Want to do Malayalam Wordprocessing with Open Office
? Here is how you can do it. Not
a very good solution but it works. |
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News: IT Kerala 2002 -
(1-8-2002) |
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Malayalam Free Software Localisation project demonstration
being done at IT Kerala
2002. Visit KBip stall 1st floor, Government of Kerala
pavilion.
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Announcement: Gnome 2 -
(27-6-2002) |
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The GNOME Foundation today released version 2.0 of
the GNOME Desktop and Developer Platform. Pango
module for Malayalam works with Gnome 2.
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Announcement: Agreement
Signed for Free Software for Malayalam
- (22-5-2002) |
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Kerala
Bureau of Industrial Promotion (K-BIP) has entered
into an agreement with Free Software Foundation
of India (FSF) for development of scalable Malayalam
font. For the first time, Unicode-based
desktop with Malayalam support including its tool
kits and localized applications will
also be created as part of this project.
The agreement was signed in the presence
of Kerala Industries Minister Mr. P. K. Kunhalikutty,
by Mr. Ajay Kumar, Secretary (Industries)
and Dr. E. Krishnan, Director, Free Software
Foundation.
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Announcement: Web Site -
(20-5-2002) |
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New web site for Free Software localisation
project launched. Please visit for updates on
the project. |
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