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I am one of the founder members of the IndianTeam and also a member of the ["Xubuntu"] and ["ubuntu-l10n-bn"] teams |
Hello, I'm Soumyadip Modak (b. 3rd August 1983), a resident of Kolkata, India. I've used Linux since 2000. I maintain a couple of packages on Debian (ttf-indic-fonts and aspell-bn) and am involved in Indic l10n/i18n, and am regularly found on the #indlinux channel on Freenode. I first started using Ubuntu Warty just after it was released, and have been hooked ever since. However my involvement with the Ubuntu community has just started.
I've added a few more Aspell wordlists to the Debian repository for the languages Hindi, Punjabi, Telugu, Marathi, Oriya and Tamil. Malayalam, Kannada and Assamese wordlists are being worked on by the respective L10N teams. The updated packages probably won't be available for Breezy Badger (they entered the Debian repository only this week), but I hope to have a complete set of Aspell wordlists for Indic languages in Dapper Drake.
OpenOffice.org localisation has progressed and spellchecking in Indic languages is also supported via Hunspell. Mozilla Firefox has to be custom compiled with a few patches from the Fedora Project, in order to render Indic languages properly. Expect Ubuntu packages soon.
In the recently concluded Indic Devel Meet http://indlinux.org/wiki/index.php/IndicDevelMeet, it was decided to use SCIM as the preferred Input Method Framework. The scim-m17n package currently provides for Indic language text entry using the ITrans keyboard layout. Additional layouts including Inscript have been included in scim-tables in CVS, but has not been packaged for Debian or Ubuntu yet.
I have contributed a short guide to display Bengali characters :
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=39928&highlight=bengali
I am one of the founder members of the IndianTeam and also a member of the ["Xubuntu"] and ["ubuntu-l10n-bn"] teams
My weblog : http://soumyadip.nipl.net/blog
Email:
soumyadip [at] softhome.net No spam filter, not preferred, used only for Debian packaging This account will soon be abandoned, please contact me at my Gmail address
soumyadip.modak [at] gmail.com Preferred email address
PS: If someone got to compile Eclipse into native app. using gcj4, please drop me a line, howto do it. 
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