“Unity
in Diversity” is the cultural characteristic
of India. This is facilitated by Information &
Communication Technologies a (ICT), through evolving
and adhering to Standards for information interchange
across Indian languages. Participation of industry
is essential in rapid dissemination of technology
for the people at large. This issue deals with
standardisation issues of internal encoding of
Devanagari script which is used for Hindi, Marathi,
Sanskrit, Konkani as well as Sindhi. Revisions
in the UNICODE are presented subsequent upon the
feedback from the language experts and the language
directorates of the State Governments on the draft
published in VishwaBharat@tdil, No.2, May 2001.
Language design guides will be useful in designing
language technology products. Industry consensus
emerged first time this year for standardisation
of fonts. This will prove revolutionary milestone
in ICT for masses.more.....
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