unicode-and-openweb_FCRS-CEPT_18122009.txt

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  Unicode and how to save your language in the age of Open Web

  Kartik Mistry
  kartik@debian.org
  kartik@flightnetwork.com

  Free Culture Road Show, CEPT, Ahmedabad
  18th December, 2009

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  Who & Why?

  કાર્તિક મિસ્ત્રી

  Promoting use of Unicode everywhere: Blogs, Websites, Content,
  My son's homework...

  Debian Developer, Contributor to many FOSS projects

  Because my Language matters!

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  Some years back..

  Non-Unicode fonts and contents floating everywhere
  You can't use same content without re-writing, re-doing it..
  You've to download fonts to 'see' particular website
  Examples

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  Ancient things

  Technology
  Browsers
  Awareness
  Ignorance

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  Now

  Yay! Unicode is here! Major companies, platform support
  Almost all modern browsers support without (almost) any issues
  People are using Unicode already, some are not aware though!
  You can't ignore large user base now

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  Examples

  GujaratiLexicon: Entire DB in Gujarati Unicode
  Google Search
  Google Dictionary (Language1-->Language2)
  Blogs, Content, News sites
  Transliteration, Browser plug-ins
  Spell-checkers!

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  Future

  End of Non-Unicode font era (way to go yet..)
  More content to come
  Bi/Multilingual sites on the rise
  Translation
  Preserving your language in digital age

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  That's all!

  Questions?

  Contact Me!
  Email(s) given elsewhere in slides!
  Gujarati: http://kartikm.wordpress.com
  English: http://ftbfs.wordpress.com

  This talk: http://github.com/xkartik/talks