22.3903, Media: Telugu Internet Conference held: discusses Unicode, fonts

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Subject: 22.3903, Media: Telugu Internet Conference held: discusses Unicode, fonts

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Subject: Telugu Internet Conference held: discusses Unicode, fonts


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Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:17:03
From: Brent Woo [bwoo at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Telugu Internet Conference held: discusses Unicode, fonts

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The First International Telugu Internet Conference (2011) was held in Milpitas, 
California on September 28-30. Telugu is the third-most spoken language in 
India, spoken mainly in the state of Andhra Pradesh, but is lacking in 
computer support. The Conference addressed concerns of encoding, 
interoperability, and computational issues specific to the language. 

The Hindu reports that the Minister for Information Technology and 
Computers, Ponnala Lakshmaiah, put forth the initiative and funding for the 
research and development of a complete Telugu font. It is still not fully 
encoded in Unicode. The Andhra Pradesh State Government has become a 
member of the Unicode Consortium, the first government entity to do so. 
<http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Vijayawada/article2496445.ece>

At a press conference, the Hyderabad Daily News reports that Lakshmaiah 
has ambitious goals: "We are currently developing six Telugu fonts in unicode 
that will be standardised for internet use. These fonts will be brought into 
unicode by December this year."
<http://www.hyderabaddailynews.com/2011/09/09/first-international-telugu-
internet-conference/>

The Conference aimed to highlight specific areas of language technology that 
are deficient in Telugu support: "language editors, spell checker, and text-to-
speech" because Telugu is an "agglutinating language with a very complex 
morphology coupled with prolific sandhi (also known in linguistic terms as 
morphophonemics)." says Prof. G. Uma Maheswara Rao of the Centre for 
Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies, University of Hyderabad.
<http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Vijayawada/article2503353.ece>

The official site for the Conference is here: 
<https://sites.google.com/site/iticgift/> 


Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Writing Systems

Subject Language(s): Telugu (tel)





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