Re: [NTLK] OT: new Indian pda- amida simputer

From: Eric Engle (engleerica_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Mar 29 2004 - 11:48:39 PST


Um, cultural relativism people: In case you don't remember, Hindu is written in
Sanskrit. English is a second official language of India but hand writing
recognition while possible would not make much sense and would be prohibitively
expensive.

I do believe in neighboring pakistan they use the arabic alphabet. And I know
for a fact tamil uses an alphabet which looks to my non-expert eyes like its
derived from Sanskrit but which definitely has lots of characters which are not
in Sanskrit.

And of the three hundred odd languages in the indian sub-continent those are
the ones that I know something about. I do believe Nepali is written in a
sanskrit derived alphabet - but could be wrong.

Reminds me of a recent currency discussion. Ack, gag..

> It seems that you can scribe (over web pages inside a running browser /
> pictures / etc...)
> But.... did not find mention about any kind of HWR recognition :(
>
> Does not make sense to me why someone has the idea to put an
> "accelerometer" inside a PDA and
> don't give it even the minimum HWR recognition capability. Is it only a
> cost related issue?
>
> -lpetroni
>
> On 29 Mar 2004, Sean Cross wrote:
>
> > Getting back on the Amida, from the website it seems as their Paper
> > program is just a drawing program like Newt Works, and doesn't actually
> > have any sort of HWR, and it uses a soft keyboard for input. Anyone
> > else get that from the page?
>
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