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Pandya

4:36 AM

@FaheemMitha Yes because as you know we mostly use English, When I want to write something in Devanagari, as we've discussed earlier - chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/25526291#25526291

When will I want to (frequently) type in devanagari in future, I am planning to use Devanagari keyboard and have to practice on it.

i.e for rare use it is convenient to use online tool but in case of regular use, it is recommend to practice on devanagari keyboard layout

Pandya

5:35 AM

@Wildcard (for unix.stackexchange.com/q/269840/66803) which OS?

Wildcard

CentOS 6.6.

Pandya

what "yum search Perl-compatible regular expressions" outputs?

Wildcard

In the meantime I found Stack Overflow Regular Expressions FAQ stackoverflow.com/a/22944075/5419599

But, one moment....

pcre.x86_64 : Perl-compatible regular expression library
pcre.i686 : Perl-compatible regular expression library

Pandya

you can also try "yum search pcre | grep regex" @Wildcard

Wildcard

Even without the grep I get:

pcre-devel.i686 : Development files for pcre
pcre-devel.x86_64 : Development files for pcre
pcre-static.x86_64 : Static library for pcre
pcre.x86_64 : Perl-compatible regular expression library
pcre.i686 : Perl-compatible regular expression library

None of those looks completely promising.

I don't strictly need the pcresyntax man page now that I found the stack overflow faq I linked above, but

it would be nice to know the general answer to the question I asked.

(Even if it's just "hunt with yum and hope you find the package" ;)

I have to drop offline now but thanks for the tips and the chat invite! :)

Pandya

5:53 AM

@Wildcard let me know about man 3 pcrepattern?

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Pandya

7:10 AM

@Wildcard check the revised answer that may help you

Faheem Mitha

7:38 AM

@Pandya it's not clear what you are replying to. Use the nice reply thingy.

As I am doing here.

@Pandya I wasn't aware Devnagri keyboards existed.

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Faheem Mitha

5:52 PM

This is OT, but given that there are some Indians occasionally in chat, can anyone recommend a good Hindi <-> English online resource? Dictionary or something more fancy.

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Fabby

9:02 PM

@FaheemMitha I use Google translate for all the languages that I know, unless I'm looking for a specific expression that I cannot find in Google.

Then I go to english.stackexchange.com or french.stackexchange.com

Faheem Mitha

@Fabby Sure. I was looking for something a little more fine grained. Maybe a dictionary, but with a better interface than they usually have.

@Fabby There's no hindi.SE yet.

Perhaps surprisingly.

Fabby

@FaheemMitha Indeed!

How many Indians are there?

1 billion?

Faheem Mitha

Hindi Language

Proposed Q&A site for hindi Language is a proposed Q&A site for linguists, translators, speakers, serious Hindi language enthusiasts, and people learning Hindi.

Currently in definition.

@Fabby Nobody knows. But I've heard the figure 1.3 billion mentioned.

That site proposal does not seem to be progressing swiftly, however. Perhaps not enough of those 1.3 billion are visiting SE.

Of course, living where I do, I'm not sure how many people would understand correct Hindi if I was to try to speak it.

Fabby

@FaheemMitha Well, English is the dominant language in India...

How many Hindi speakers?

Faheem Mitha

@Fabby It's the official language of India. I think. So hundreds of millions of people should speak it, in theory.

@Fabby Englis?

Fabby

9:09 PM

@FaheemMitha I was under the impression English was the official language and then there were a ton of secondary languages...

Faheem Mitha

@Fabby I'm not sure if that is the case.

Fabby

@FaheemMitha Like I said: just an impression...

Faheem Mitha

Maybe someone who really knows India and gets around a lot could provide a better answer to that...

@Fabby Most Indians who speak English butcher the language, anyway. So, it also depends on what you define English speaking to be.

Fabby

@FaheemMitha I thought you lived in Bombay...

Faheem Mitha

@Fabby I do.

Fabby

9:11 PM

@FaheemMitha "Butcher"???

Michael Homer

"Hindi in the Devanagari script is the official language of the Union. English is an additional language for government work."

Faheem Mitha

@Fabby Yes, butcher. Or massacre, if you prefer.

Fabby

If you go by numbers, Indian English is the dominant version of English and

[speaking in fake Indian accent] we should all be speaking like this bobbing our heads

Faheem Mitha

@Fabby Yes, and PHP is also very popular.

Fabby

@FaheemMitha Yeah, but that is of mediocre quality...

Faheem Mitha

9:13 PM

@Fabby yes.

@MichaelHomer Yes.

The Indian government made passing exams in Hindi compulsory to get through school.

That was the case in my day. Probably still is.

Fabby

@FaheemMitha Yeah, you old fart! ;-)

Faheem Mitha

I kept failing my exams. I didn't want to learn Hindi.

@Fabby Now, now.

Anyway, if there was a Hindi SE I could learn lots of new words that nobody around here would understand.

Sometimes spam is funny:

> This is an official notification to you by the board of trustees Microsoft Corporate Citizenship, you have been selected for using Microsoft services,
view the attached document for more details.

ROTFL.

Michael Homer

A friend of mine lives in Kerala at the moment, having moved from Italy last year, and is now working on her third and fourth getting-through-the-day languages.

It seems to be an interesting experience all around.

Faheem Mitha

@MichaelHomer Moved to Kerala to do what?

Michael Homer

@FaheemMitha Some sort of physics. She was at SISSA in Trieste before that.

Faheem Mitha

9:22 PM

@MichaelHomer Oh. That's an odd place to be doing physics.

India is certainly nothing if not interesting if you are coming from Western Europe.

Michael Homer

They have a university.

She's not Italian, she was just there for her PhD.

Faheem Mitha

@MichaelHomer Oh.

@MichaelHomer Yes, India has lots of universities.

Michael Homer

That's all that's really required to be doing physics. The main impression I'm getting from the whole process is of loudspeakers everywhere at all hours.

Faheem Mitha

@MichaelHomer To be precise, it's what India calls universities.

Fabby

@FaheemMitha Sounds legit! Did you click the link??? >:-)

Faheem Mitha

9:35 PM

@Fabby clock?

Oh, you mean, look at. No, I didn't.

Fabby

Sounds like a ransomware scam...

Faheem Mitha

I mean, I'd be quite happy to get money from MS. But it doesn't sound very likely.

Michael Homer

@FaheemMitha I'm not really sure which university it is. She did astrophysics mainly, and there seems to be some sort of space-research centre around there too, so maybe that.

I recently got a spam message offering me an opportunity from "Mr Bernard Madoff", which was at least on point.

Faheem Mitha

@MichaelHomer Yes, maybe. There are a fair number of research centers scattered around India. Some in out of the way places.

@MichaelHomer Yes, sounds apposite, at least.