Legendary Kannada Sugama Sangeetha singer C Aswath has passed away this morning (29-dec-1939-29-12-2009) creating a big void in Kannada Music world. His voice is still ringing in our hears. His style of singing Bhaavegeete (Expressive poetry) and Janapada Geete (Flok songs) always used captivate his listeners. He took the poems of our greatest poets to [...]
Deccanherald published this following article on its website on 5th December. I guess it was supposed to be “Wikipedia” instead. On contrary, Kannada wikipedia has been live from more than 5 years on the net at http://kn.wikipedia.org and computer savvy kannadiga’s have already been contributing a large amount of articles(there are more than 5000 articles [...]
Good News! Kannada Daily Prajavani.net is now in Unicode.. – No more struggle to read your favorite Kannada news paper.. Till this afternoon, it was really hard to read prajavani.net content as character encoding was in ASCII. At last Prajavani decided to move to Unicode character encoding standard to reach out more readers. Now, its [...]
Check out this combination: Linux mint 7 – Gloria and Kannada Login screen in Kannada UI is not completely localized but lots of things can be found in Kannnda in menu’s etc… I think you can identify a bug too here. Do you? If you have interest in localization etc.. mail me back..
Yes, I downloaded the development release of google chrome on my Ubuntu box and found that it’s really rendering Kannada fine. But, there is one more thing which needs to be looked into. Numbers in Kannada are not rendering fine as of now. Any body wanna work on this?
Fedora 11 is out with lot of new updates. Here is a first glance at things that I liked. Fedora Complete Feature list is available here: http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/11/FeatureList Cool Image isn’t it? Here I’m inside LiveCD session Firefox 3.5 beta4 is now available for better browsing experience Kannada works out-of-box. No font installation required and Lohit [...]
