Re: Encoding Hindi

From: Prabhat Hegde (Prabhat.Hegde@Eng.Sun.COM)
Date: Mon Nov 06 2000 - 17:43:16 EST


        most of the newspapers on the web seem to use a (font)encoding
        called ISFOC - a kind of de-facto standard. Please look up
        
        http://www.scit.4mg.com/gist.html (ISFOC).
        
        Could not get any more documentation on the same.
        
        prabhat.
        
>Mime-Version: 1.0
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>X-UML-Sequence: 16767 (2000-11-06 22:02:04 GMT)
>From: "James Kass" <jameskass@worldnet.att.net>
>To: "Unicode List" <unicode@unicode.org>
>Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 14:02:03 -0800 (GMT-0800)
>Subject: Re: Encoding Hindi
>
>
>Try some of the Hindi news links at the following:
>
>http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/hindilinks.html
>
>There seems to be a variety of local font encondings.
>
>Best regards,
>
>James Kass
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Tom Emerson" <tree@basistech.com>
>To: "Unicode List" <unicode@unicode.org>
>Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 9:18 AM
>Subject: Encoding Hindi
>
>
>> Greetings all,
>>
>> I'm looking for some references (print or electronic) on how Hindi is
>> encoded *in*reality* on the web right now. From the Hindi pages I've
>> seen, it appears that there is general agreement on the font encoding
>> and everyone writes their pages in CP-1252 or Latin-1 to that
>> particular encoding. How does this work in reality? It would appear
>> that ISCII isn't used on the web --- true?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> -tree
>>
>> --
>> Tom Emerson Basis Technology Corp.
>> Zenkaku Language Hacker http://www.basistech.com
>> "Beware the lollipop of mediocrity: lick it once and you suck forever"
>>
>
>



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.2 : Tue Jul 10 2001 - 17:21:15 EDT