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