Re: [Indic-computing-devel] SMS (was: ISI kolkata developing indic language software??)

[Tapan S. P. <ta...@ya...>]

Sometimes I wonder how much transliteration damages the language.
Clearly somewhat because it is pretty ugly-looking compared to our own
letters.  But for a certail level of users you have to admit the point
does get across.

But clearly that cannot be the final solution...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Keyur Shroff" <key...@ya...>
To: <ind...@li...>
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 10:30 AM
Subject: Re: [Indic-computing-devel] SMS (was: ISI kolkata developing
indic language software??)


> Hi,
>
> --- "Tapan S. Parikh" <ta...@ya...> wrote:
> >
> > Also, my uncle has a phone where he can SMS in Gujarati.  Has
anyone
> > see this?  What is the input method?
>
> AFAIK, you have to send transliterated message in English to a
number and
> they will then send SMS in Gujarati to the recipient.
>
> For example, to send an SMS in Hindi, you have to send
>    Aap Kaise Ho?
>
> to some number and then service provider will convert it into Hindi
message
> and forward it.
>
> - Keyur
>
>
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