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आपला ब्राउझर युनीकोड वाचू शकतॊ.
Damn tough. Most of the time, I was worried I missed some Unicode entity. WP supportsUnicode. If you can read the text above, your browser does too.
Well, without Unicode, things were seriously fucked up. And I mean it.
I have been using Devnagari since 1997.(Actually, dad has been using it.) It was some APS software that enable it in the Windows-9x era, and then the floppy in which that came got corruped. Thankfully, I had sense to back up the fonts, and his files were readable later on as well.
Then we got a copy of the iLISP (or whatever it was called.) And then CDONTS as well. All very substandard products, with no vision of cross compatibility or universal appeal. Of course, the saving grace were phonetic fonts, and then there were some free fonts as well, like Millenium Varun, Sadhu and Susha. But neither was compatible with one another.
Of course, unicode has been around since the NT4.0 kernel on the Windows front (I’d say something similar on the linux front as well). And yet, it is painful to see all those Marathi newspaper sites using their own stupid versions.
With XP it is wayyy more simpler, all you need to do is install the language bar, with the Asian language support (13 MB extra), and you get Mangal, with a choice of two keyboards. And they work like a charm.
And because it is inbuilt into the OS, you can use them to even name files, do your fun stuff, and just about everything where Unicode works. It’s just great now!
Except I still don’t know how to go about converting all the earlier stuff to Mangal. Well, I could write a routine, but then again, I don’t think it’s worth the effort.
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