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diff --git a/chathans/README b/chathans/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0d3b55f --- /dev/null +++ b/chathans/README @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +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 <rajeeshknambiar@gmail.com> 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 <santhosh.thottingal@gmail.com> and Nishan Naseer +<nishan.naseer@gmail.com>. + +Payyans and Chathans are projects by Swathanthra Malayalam Computing <http://smc.org.in> + +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 <rajeeshknambiar@gmail.com> + +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'. + |