Re: [Indic-computing-users] [LangWorkingGroup] Language Handbook Format

[Keyur S. <key...@ya...>]

Hi,

I am also attaching a format available with me. We can club both the
formats.

- Keyur


--- "Tapan S. Parikh" <ta...@ya...> wrote:
> 
> Im attaching in plain text a possible format for the language handbook
> of the indic-computing project.  
> 
> Im working on a draft for the format of the Technology Map that I will
> take up amongst the Technology Working Group soon.  Ill circulate that
> shortly.
> 
> -- Tapan
> > 
> Language Handbook Format Working Draft
> Indic-Computing Project
> 22-9-2002
> 
> For each language:
> 
> Background
> -----------
> Some background that would help put the language in appropriate
> historical and social context.
> 	- Language History
> 	- Language Family (Etymology): Which languages is this language derived
> from and related to.
> 	- Number of Speakers
> 	- Geographic Distribution
> 	- Variants / Dialects
> 
> Section 1 Linguistic Analysis
> --------------------------------
> Some more in-depth background of the language from a linguistic
> perspective, with a focus on issues relevant to computing, display and
> text processing.  
> 	- List of Writing Systems : A list of different writing systems used to
> represent the language in text.  For each writing system, one would try
> to include:
> 		- Graphemes: the basic graphemes used in the writing system,
> combination rules, and mapping to semantic characters. 
> 		- Usage: Usage details (Is it still used?  Where?  For what purpose? 
> By how many people in what contexts?) 
> 	- Basic Grammatical Info: Grammatical information about basic sentence
> structure and grammar rules.
> 
> Section 2 Character Encoding
> -----------------------------
> 	- List of Encodings:  A list of character encodings to store this
> language in digital format.
> 		- Size of a character: (in bits)
> 		- Code Point / Character Map: Map between code points and semantic
> characters.
> 		- Outstanding Issues: Issues with how this encoding represents the
> language.  Types of issues could include the following:
> 			- Missing Chars
> 			- Missing Semantics
> 			- Missing Processing Rules
> 			- Redundant / Extra Chars
> 			- Erroneous Semantics
> 			- Erroneous Processing Rules
> 		- Writing Systems / Language Variants Supported: Which variants and
> different writing systems does this encoding support for the given
> language.
> 		- Who created the encoding?
> 		- Who is in charge of the encoding management and modification process?
> 		- Software / OS support - What software and OS's support this encoding
> 			- OS / Network (Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Windows, Novell, MacOS, etc.)
> 
> 			- Databases
> 			- Programming Language Libraries and IDEs (C, C++, Java, Perl, Python,
> etc.)
> 			- Standards (Unicode, ISO 10464, XML, Linux Standards Base, etc.)  
> 
> Section 3 Fonts
> ----------------
> 	- List of fonts or font families available for this language.  For each
> font,
> 		- What type of Font is it? (TTF, Type 1, X Window, OTF, other) 
> 		- What is the availability?
> 		- Who is the creator of the font?
> 		- Who currently manages / develops / owns the font?
> 		- Is it Open Source?
> 		- What encodings are supported?
> 		- What is the glyph set?
> 		- Brief description of semantic character / glyph mapping
> 		- Brief description of positioning and substitution issues
> 		
> 
> Section 4 Input Methods
> -------------------------
> 	- List of Keyboard Layouts for a language
> 		- Keyboard Type - keyboard types (hardware) supported
> 		- Key - Char Mapping - Mapping between keys and code points
> 		- Usage Information - Information about how the layout is used in
> practice
> 			- Prevalence
> 			- Types of Users
> 	- Encodings Supported
> 		
> Section 5 Text Processing
> --------------------------
> Information about the language useful from a text processing (searching,
> sorting, spelling, etc.) point of view.
> 	- List of Sort Orders - Different ways the language can be sorted.
> 	- Searching / Matching Semantics - What it means for one word to equal
> another.
> 	- Word Roots
> 		- Prefix / Suffix Rules
> 	- Line Break Rules - When to break a line
> 		- Hyphenation Rules
> 
> Section 6 Typography and Display
> --------------------------------
> 	- Basics
> 	- Ligatures
> 	- Punctuation
> 	- Justification
> 	- Issues Related to Multi-Lingual Document Display
> 	
> Section 7 Locale Info
> ----------------------
> Locale-Specific Information would include info about the following:
> 	- List of Possible Locales - List of locales the language could be
> applicable for.  Could refer to a previously described locale.
> 		- Time - Time Systems
> 			- Clock Time
> 			- Calendar
> 		- Numeric System
> 		- Measures
> 		- Currency
> 		- Salutations
> 
> Section 8 XML / HTML Markup
> ---------------------------
> - XML: Issues related to including local language text in XML docs
> - HTML: Issues related to including and displaying text in HTML docs
> 
> Section 9 New Areas
> --------------------
> A list of people / projects working on each of the following for the
> language:
> 	- Text to Speech Support 
> 	- Voice Recognition
> 	- OCR Support
> 	- Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation
> 
> Section 10 Language Resources
> --------------------------------
> Other important resources regarding the language:
> 	- Local Language Software Available - Different types of software and
> systems that support the language in one way or another
> 	- Organizations - Different organizations, people and institutions
> interested in the language, either from a computing perspective or not
> 	- Dictionaries - On-line and Off-line dictionaries for the language
> 	- Books, Articles, etc.
> 	- Other Language Links and Resources
> 
> 
> 
> 



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