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From: Kalyana Krishnan rkk@acharya.iitm.ac.in Subject: PERL applications with Indian scripts Date: 9 Apr 2004 14:50:34 GMT

Greetings,

Kindly include the following in the announcements.

Kalyana Krishnan Professor IIT Madras Chennai India - 600 036 ====================================================================== PERL programs for use with Indian languages/scripts (Systems running Linux)

Greetings from Chennai, India.

Multilingual software applications supporting user interfaces in Indian languages may now be written in PERL. The required modules for permitting Indian language scripts to be processed by standard PERL are now available for those interested in working with PERL and localizing applications. Please visit

http://acharya.iitm.ac.in/software/sources/perl.html

Over the years, several persons have asked for the sources of the applications distributed by the acharya site.

Systems Development Lab, where the multilingual software has been developed over a period of nearly 12 years, has decided to make all the sources available to all interested persons, through a new OpenSource project at sourceforge.

http://imli.sourceforge.net/

The syllable level coding scheme, which forms the basis for text representation in all the multilingual applications developed at the lab, has also been discussed for the benefit of developers. Please see

http://acharya.iitm.ac.in/software/sources/scheme.html

Sources for more than twenty packages, ranging from Multilingual editors, linguistic applications, search engines, web page creation, font generation, Text to Speech Synthesis, email etc., will be available over the next six to eight weeks, as volunteers prune the sources, document them and present the same for further developemnt.

Students in Engineering colleges, looking for projects will benefit from the availability of the sources. The basic resources required for working with all the scripts in use in the country, including Urdu will be made available as part of this effort.

For specific information please get in touch with rkk@acharya.iitm.ac.in ====================================================================

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