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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'.