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Subject: XClients supporting Multilingual user interfaces.
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From: rkk@iitm.iitm.ernet.in (Dr. R.Kalyanakrishnan.)
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 95 20:27:10 GMT
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      User Interface Design Software for Multilingual Applications.

    Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India is involved in the
design of systems supporting user interfaces in different world languages.
At present, the Systems Development Laboratory of the Computer Science
Department has developed a library of C callable routines which can
perform input and output as well as string processing with Indian
Scripts and Japanese Kana. The Indian Language interface system also
provides tools for defining the characters of the language and displaying
them on a bitmapped display.

    With the system, it is possible to develop many different applications
supporting user interfaces in different languages. In many cases, existing
ASCII based applications may be easily modified to accommodate the
new script. Many client server based models lend themselves to such modi-
fications.

   A few of the applications developed with the system are available
via anonymous ftp from tulip.ee.ndsu.nodak.edu. However some of these
applications may be viewed without downloading the software. This
has been made possible by developing the applications as xclients.
Users running an Xserver on their machine may get the clients to
output directly to their screens by allowing their server to be
accessed from the host running the clients.

  Please do the following to view the applications.

 1. Run an xterm on your server and add tulip.ee.ndsu.nodak.edu
    to the access list of the server by running the xhost command.

      xhost +tulip.ee.ndsu.nodak.edu

 2. Telnet to tulip.ee.ndsu.nodak.edu and login as "athithi"
    with the password "bhasha". Please note that quotes are not
    part of the login id or the password.

 3. Upon successful login you you will be prompted to type in your
    hostname so that the clients may set their DISPLAY variable
    properly.

 4. Make an appropriate choice from the menu which will appear
    indicating four xclients.

     1. An interactive application to learn to use the Keyboard.
     2. A tutorial on learning the Tamil Alphabet.
     3. An interactive string processing demo.
     4. A gopher client that can display documents in different
        Indian Languages ( The gopher server for this is also
        running at tulip).

     The xclients are compiled for Linux and run under Linux-1.2.8.

    These applications are examples based on the interface library
    ported to Xwindows. The library has also been ported to other
    platforms.  More information about the software is available
    in the directory /pub at tulip.

    We are grateful to Prof. K. Sankara Rao of the North Dakota State
    University for making this site available to us.

    Views and feedback relating to the demos will be received with
    gratitude.  Send your responses to rkk@shiva.iitm.ernet.in and
    mark a copy to rkk@tulip.ee.ndsu.nodak.edu as well.

    The demos are also available from sdlrkk.iitm.ernet.in but
    the network connection to this machine is very slow and not
    guaranteed to be up always.

    We would also be interested to know if users would like to try
    the library for developing their own applications.

    R.Kalyana Krishnan
    Department of Computer Science
    Indian Institute of Technology
    Madras, INDIA.



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