my opinion about the pathetic indic support in software in general is lack of gov. initiative in this regard. Sorry if i sound whiny here :D
In China they made it a gov. agenda to get the lang. on to softwares. They dared microsoft to enter without chinese language support. As of today they have put all the top univs, softw. companies in china to work on complete chinese version of linux - red flag.
I am really waiting for that to happen here. Just one or two developers can't do this. Its lot of work and requires a lot of resources and brains.
Agreedly as jt says its dependent on market size too. But thats only the initiative for software business wanting to setup a shop.
Gov. should definitely have more reasons to do it besides market ? Also if we have one nice uniform api /platform in place businesses would find it easier to adapt their software for it ?
This is being worked on in iits AFAIK, i dunno the name of the project but i did read bout it sometime back on an iit page.
later,
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