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

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

I forgot to add that Ministry of C&IT, Government of India has been
addressing these issues by collecting information. Let us hope that we'll
see Indian phonetic alphabets in Unicode in near future.

- Keyur



--- Keyur Shroff <key...@ya...> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The Unicode coverage of Indian scripts clearly lacks phonetic signs that
> were used in ancient literature such as four Vedas (Rigveda, Saamveda,
> Atharvaveda, Yajurveda). Extended Latin range in Unicode covers some
> phonetic symbols in Latin script. Other phonetic symbols are encoded in
> IPA
> area which covers some of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) in
> Unicode [U+250 - U+2AF]. But again these symbols are based on Latin
> script.
> There is a need to include all symbols (like pitch, stress, time, etc.)
> needed for Indian phonetic alphabets because even visual appearance of
> these symbols are not there in Unicode as can be seen in ancient
> literature. Since it is clear that all these symbols cannot be included
> in
> current Unicode range for Indian script, separate space should be
> provided
> for it in Unicode.
> 
> - Keyur
> 
> 
> --- "Dr. U.B. Pavanaja" <pav...@vi...> wrote:
> > 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? 
> > -----------------------------------------------------
> > Dr. U.B. Pavanaja
> > Editor, Vishva Kannada
> > World's first Internet magazine in Kannada
> > http://www.vishvakannada.com/
> > 
> > Note: I don't worry about pselling mixtakes
> > 
> > 
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