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open-tamil-php

Open Tamil PHP is here to address character encoding support for Tamil characters, fixing rendering issues in PDF and image generation, natively in PHP. Idea Sparked from: https://github.com/tecnickcom/TCPDF/issues/609

github.com/HariharanUmapathi/open-tamil-php

Maintainer

Hariharan Umapathi

Software Developer

How to support

  • Check it out, if something is missing, create an issue
  • Raise a PR
  • Create testcases.

All contributions are welcome.

A small brief about your project

Open Tamil PHP is here to address character encoding support for Tamil characters, fixing rendering issues in PDF and image generation, natively in PHP. Idea Sparked from : https://github.com/tecnickcom/TCPDF/issues/609

One FOSS maintainer lesson for your younger self

You have to wait for sometime for something. Same not applicable for everything.

Why do you do it? Why do you bother maintaining a FOSS project?

After waiting around for a solution for this problem that many faced, I decided to start addressing it by trying to fix it. One can always try at the least.

If your repo had a theme song, what would it be?

Which file in your project would you most like to set on fire?

unittest

What's your open-source villain origin story?

After wandering all around the internet, through countless forums, mailing groups and github for a fix to this PDF rendering problem, it eventually drove me to create a solution.

If you had to use one emoji to convey what it's like to be a FOSS maintainer, what would it be?

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