31.1676, Software: Digitisation of Indic languages

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LINGUIST List: Vol-31-1676. Tue May 19 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.1676, Software: Digitisation of Indic languages

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Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 00:29:08
From: Richmond Mathewson [richmondmathewson at gmail.com]
Subject: Digitisation of Indic languages

 
Owing to the nature of Indian Abugida writing systems and the tendency for
their component consonantals to form
conjunct consonants, computers and the Unicode consortium have been slow in
catching up, and, mainly resort to the use of halantam characters to represent
conjunct consonants; which, while being functional rather miss the point of
Indic writing systems.

However, my Devawriter Pro (available, cross-platform, for Linux, Windows and
Macintosh) leverages a font that stores
a complete lexicon of conjunct consonants both for the Devanagari and the
Grantha scripts to prepare and export
fully conjunct consonant texts in Sanskrit and other Indic languages.

It is available FREE.

After some 10 years development I am pleased to release version 3.2.0:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2vgc1ei088hdqay/AAC8ac27eZuiI_BsWFlFQQjYa?dl=0


Linguistic Field(s): Writing Systems

Language Family(ies): Indo-European



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