[Indic-computing-users] Project -new programming langauge

[Dr. U.B. P. <pav...@vi...>]

Below is a posting from the VOLT message board.
-Pavanaja

Dear sir , 
I am Dr.B.V.Venkata Krishna Sastry, Faculty at Hindu University of America. 
I am a Langauge technologist, working on the design of a 'new programming langauge' 
having integrated features of Sound-script-langauge' inbult at the 'Font'level. 
The exiting standards of ASCII /UNICODE do not handle the 'sound' issue; And the 
office productivity softwares are focussed mainly on character based processing. 
The issue is linked to different technical groups- a) The font developers have to provide 
some way of integrating/ attribute building for the element of sound and langauge ; 
which at present is handled outside the font by defining the same in to a font-langauge 
family . b) Once this is made , the OS and the applications should be able to read this 
'FONT' properly and send the outputs/instructions properly to the display -processing 
and operating devices . I am not able to get one agency where i can address this issue 
for an intneded solution of 'True multilingual notepad and the text reader'. The different 
groups of technologies are working in 'segments'making the solution a complex one. 
This issue is pursued by me as a 'Content developer who has developed Interactive 
Multimedia CD-ROM's with Cultural content -like BhagavadGita ,Gods of India' and the 
formats of the 'Digital books for Devanagari Sanskrit studies'. 
I have noticed that the Micosoft Project areas related to - WHO, Speech recognition, 
voice Data base and such areas do visualize such issues. The other areas where this 
approach provides a solution is Intelligent systems, SpokenLangague Interface and the 
like. 
NOTE:- Please copy your message response to - sastry_bvk@hindu-
university.edu also for convenince . 
Could you please let me know the group to whom this issue needs to be addressed pl? 
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Dr. U.B. Pavanaja
Editor, Vishva Kannada
World's first Internet magazine in Kannada
http://www.vishvakannada.com/

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