Re: [OT] Is there a set of links for Bengali literature content ?

"Indranil Das Gupta" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.user-groups.linux.kolkata
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 11:39 AM, "Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)"
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Indranil Das Gupta wrote:
>
<snipped>
> it's various publications - they don't do much on Unicode. Leaving ABP
> aside, there are a bunch of (little ?) magazines who exist, and they
> aren't doing web content that is Unicode compliant. My questions were
> two fold:

you have posited an interesting topic, my question, is there a list of
such publications that are online with BN (non-Unicode) content? And
do we know who the publishers are?

> o what stops them from doing Unicode on the web ?

One reason that I can immediately see is that most of these are tied
to Sumit/Satyajit/Avro/BanglaWord/iLeap complex - has an alternative
been outreached to them - I presume not. Any steps to migrate this
bunch would require giving them the same keyboard layout as their
existing s/w as first step.

> o what stops them from producing web content and even generating some
> revenue out of it ?

You mean filthy lucre???? isn't that *bad* ? ;-P

> as regards Unicode support on abasar.net - i don't see much happening.
> perhaps they can experiment with a CMS ?

Suffers from font encoding issues, needs refactoring. A CMS can help,
but that would be stage 2 imho

cheers
-indra
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