Chathans 0.1 ============ Chathans is a GTK frontend to Payyans, a Malayalam ASCII to Unicode converter. No surprise; Payyans and Chathans, both are named after famous characters of the same names created by famous Malayalam writer V.K.N Authors ======= Chathans is written by Rajeesh K Nambiar as his first stand alone attempt on a GTK project. Payyans is a library written in Python which converts ASCII files to Unicode, by Santhosh Thottingal and Nishan Naseer . Payyans and Chathans are projects by Swathanthra Malayalam Computing Copyright ========= Copyright (c) 2008, Rajeesh K Nambiar Chathans is a free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Chathans is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. Bugs & Feature Requests ======================= If you find any bug, or you like to have some nice feature in Chathans, please report them to Rajeesh at How to Install ============== Chathans requires Payyans to be installed to function correctly. 1. Untar the source package by 'tar xjf Chathans-0.1.tar.bz2' and go to the directory 'Chathans-0.1' 2. Do a './configure --prefix=/usr' followed by 'make' and 'make install'. Alternatively, run the 'install.sh' file 3. If no error is reported, Chathans will be installed properly. Run '/usr/bin/chathans'.