MALAYALAM COMPUTING
1. Write four Unicode of Malayalam Fonts
Ans. Meera, Rachana, Suruma, Raghu
2. --------------- is the practice of converting a text from one text to another in a systematic way.
Ans. Transliteration
3.What is called ILeap
ILeap is a multilingual word processor for windows with all the features like inserting images and clip art graphics. ILeap supports all Indian languages. ILeap shows an on keyboard to help the user in easily typing in other languages besides English.
4. What is called Malayalam Computing?
Swathanthra Malayalam Computing (SMC) is a free software community and non profit charitable society working on Malayalam and other Indic languages. It is the biggest language computing developer community in India. They have created several Malayalam fonts.
5. What are the aims of the Malayalam Computing Projects?
Malayalam Computing aims at strengthening malayalam language ,making use of ICT.It tries to create a Malyalam web portal for every Panchayath in Kerala which would include details such as local,natural,human resources,local economy,local industry and services.Govt. will facilitate with the development of these portals by providing server space and technical support.
6. Give the importance of free software in the language computing.
Free software gives users the freedom to study how the program works by accessing the source code, writing additional code, testing, modifying and distributing it. These things are prohibited for proprietary software.
7. Compare UNICODE with ASCII code.
The UNICODE is the Universal character encoding standard used for representation of text for computer processing. It is fully compatible with the international standard ISO/IEC. Unicode provides a consistent way of encoding multilingual plain text. It is destined to replace ASCII and other single and multi-byte characters sets which are limited in size and are multilingual environment.
8. Give details of any three types of Malayalam Fonts.
9.Write the steps to install Malayalam fonts in Windows and Linux.
Step I: Download Font from Malayalam Font Page (Look at Main Menu).
Step II: After download the zip file -> Extract it -> Now you will found .ttf file
Step III: Now go to Start -> Control Panel -> Fonts -> Paste the font file
Step IV: You done all thing now go to MS word select font from drop down and type in Malayalam font.
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