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Padma 0.4.18, by Nagarjuna Venna and Harshita Vani
Padma is a system for transforming Indic text between various public and proprietary formats. This extension applies the technology to Mozilla based applications.Padma is available as an extension for Firefox, Thunderbird, Netscape, Mozilla suite and SeaMonkey platforms.Padma currently supportsTelugu,Malayalam,Tamil,Devanagari,Gujarati,Kannada,Bengali, andGurmukhi scripts. The following output formats are supported:
Input methods supported are:
Padma can automatically transform web pages that use the above dynamic font schemes to Unicode. Configuration can be done by clicking on Tools->Extensions->Padma. The script in which the website should be rendered is also configurable from there. (For ex: you can have the Malayalam newspaper Deepika rendered in Telugu). Some of the websites that work withPadma are:
Adding new converters to Padma is relatively straightforward. SeeGopala Krishna Koduri's detailedinstructions.
Padma's manual transformer is accessible whenever the context menu is launched after selecting a region in the page (typically by a right click). This menu is also configurable from the options window. Configurable options include schemes (RTS,ITRANS,ISCII),TSCII,TAB, TAM and scripts (Telugu,Malayalam,Tamil,Devanagari,Gujarati andKannada). One menu item - 'Transform to Unicode' is always displayed. The selection can span arbitrary page elements. For RTS output, three different writing styles are supported - Kanneganti, Pillalamarri and Palana. Seehere for a definition of these 3 styles. RTS output can be further refined by choosing how "sunnaa" should be generated - the scheme popularized byRamgvallika is supported in addition to the standard RTS method.
The current stable version ofPadma is0.4.18. 0.4.18 was released on January 21st, 2012 and may not be available for download from the mirrors for about 24 hours. Clickhere for Release Notes. You can leave a comment atMozilla Update or send a mail to thePadma mailing list.
Padma is inspired by Kolichala Suresh's implementation of a converter from RTS to Unicode for the Internet Explorer. Many thanks to Kolichala Suresh, Saravan Kumar, M K Paul, Mayuresh Kadu, Indraganti Padma, Ben Bennett, C.J. Cibu, Guntupalli Karunakar, Golam Mortuza Hossain, AnvarLal Hasbulla, A S Alam, Harshita Vani, Kulbir Saini, Rajagiri Ravi, Kinshul Verma,Radhesh and Vishnu Fafat for their code contributions, input and advice.
The padma project can be contacted through themailing list or themember list.
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