Some of you may think freedom to modify software is useful only for techies. I'd like share the story of #scribus, a page layout software replacement to Adobe PageMaker and InDesign. This software only supported English and other Latin languages initially. Then a programmer from Oman, Fahad Amar Salim All Saidi added support for #Arabic with funding from Oman government. Along with Arabic, this change brought support for all Indian languages. #FreeSoftware
@mujeebcpy it is
@akshay and joice (is he here ?) They can give more insight
@mujeebcpy @akshay @wyatwerp @praveen
As of March2019 we @smc got this done https://blog.smc.org.in/malayalam-support-in-lyx/amp/
A similar improvement was done to #Lyx too, which is a #WYSIWYM (what you see is what you mean) document writing tool.
A very good improvement in the usability of #Linux on the desktop was done by Con Kolivas, an Australian ... dentist (I feel old saying this, as it was so long ago).