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

[Kalika B. <ka...@pi...>]

I'd be happy to do the Background and Section 1 bits for any of the 
languages that you'd like me to do.
tnx,
Kalika 

On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Keyur Shroff wrote:

> 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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