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Unicode may destroy Malayalam language in computer :(

This is for the first time I am writing about Malayalam language in my blog. Unfortunately, this is about a catastrophe going to happen for our language :( . I created this blog for writing about my interests (Python,Zope etc.). I hope you will excuse this cross posted blog. By breaking Unicode's basic principle, that, it will only inlclude basic characters of a language, now they are going to add charaters which are formed from other basic characters in Malayalam. You can read more about the issue here: http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/SMC/AtomicChilluIsUnacceptable and in this document: http://www.rachanamalayalam.org/docs/ChilluEncodingIsWrong.pdf . The changes are added to draft version of Unicode 5.1.0, so we still have some hope that it can be reverted. Please support us ! Some background: I started the Swathanthra Malayalam Computing project almost 7 years back while studying at NIT Calicut. Later, when Free Software Foundation of India started working on this project, I

Yesterday's BangPypers meeting

After a long time, we had a BangPypers meet yesterday at ThoughtWorks office (thanks to ThoughtWorks for hosting us). Pradeep gave us an excellent introduction to Django using a TODO list application he created. This application used SQLite (RDBMS), jQuery (JS framework) and BluePrint (CSS framework). He will publish this code soon in his site.

Partial content in planets (A Request)

Philipp , Martin & Kevin : I used to read planet.plone.org using an offline feed agregator. I really like your blog posts (I never missed a single one). I have one request, could you add full content to your feeds for planets ? I could have asked this question offline, but I thought other bloggers who only give a link or part of content to planets may add their full content to their feeds. I wonder whether there is any other aspect which I don't see which prevents them from adding full content to feeds. One issue which I can see is that, very long posts may clutter the planets, but I think planets can fix it with a new design which only shows a part of the content and a link to view full content. (Feel free to make comments here )

Congratulations to Grok team for new site !

Grok project created a new simple,informative and great looking website: http://grok.zope.org/ Congratulations to the team !

ZCA Book listed in plone.org - Case study chapter

Thanks to Alan Runyan for adding the ZCA book in plone.org: http://plone.org/documentation/books http://plone.org/documentation/books/guide-to-zca/ I hope this will help to increase the readership of the book. Recently I started working on a case study chapter . The source of application can be downloaded from here: http://www.muthukadan.net/downloads/zcalib.tar.bz2 This is a PyGTK application which use PySQLite & ZODB as pluggable storages. Looking forward to your suggestions and feedbacks :)

I got my ZCA book !

Last month I purchased my ZCA book from Lulu . Today it arrived in my desk. Print quality, cover design and paper are very good. So far I am the only purchaser of my book ;) The cost of book is $8.75 and shipping cost to India will be another 6 USD. The book's PDF is available from my site . If you want to purchase is it for some reason, you can get it from here .