[PLUG] [OT] wondering aloud about a project !dea {based on Firefox}

[G Karunakar]

On 7/30/07, ಓಂ <guru.is.on.vi at gmail.com> wrote:
> If someone is interested in doing a small project, the idea is to
> write a transliterator plugin for firefox for all indian languages.
> Something similar to "ToCyrilic" extension of mozilla firefox.
> {
> I have not looked at all the issues that may concern this but throwing
> an !dea in Open Space (OS :-) and also have not used ToCyrilic
> extension but reading the description of what it does looks very
> interesting...
> This could be very useful tool for advancement of indic languages
> within computing community (? thinks)
> }

there is this  http://padma.mozdev.org
which converts text in font encodings to unicode, similar could be
done easily to do the transliteration (most code is javascript in it)

Karunakar