Boost for Indian language computing

[gaddeswarup]

"Few policy-driven initiatives in recent times have advanced the agenda for mass computing in India as much as the recent launch in Chennai of a basket of free software and tools for Tamil computing by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. There is now in the public domain, for one of India's two most ancient languages, a package of free resources comprising more than 200 new fonts (true type and open type) and handy software such as optical character recognition, email, a spell-check and dictionary, a modified Firefox browser, and a suite of office productivity applications. These have been developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Anna University, and a few private companies under the Language Technology Mission of the Ministry of Information Technology. " For the complete news item see:

http://www.hindu.com/2005/04/18/stor...1803861000.htm