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Indic-Computing Handbook

The Indic-Computing Project

Copyright © 2001-2003 The Indic-Computing Project

About the Indic-Computing Handbook

The Indic-Computing Handbook is an introduction to the the technical aspects of Indian language processing. It is a book written by software developers, for software developers.

The Handbook is being continually developed, and is the work of a number of individuals. It is still in its initial stages: many sections do not yet exist, and those that do need to be updated. If you are interested in helping create the Handbook, please join up.

You are reading the ``work-in-progress'' version of the Indic-Computing Handbook. This document is available from the Indic-Computing web site or from one of our mirror sites. Released versions will be made available in a variety of formats and compression options using the SourceForge file release system.

The sources and change history for the Handbook are also available for perusal.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction

I. Getting Started

2 Tutorial: Computers and Indian Languages

2.1 Introduction
2.2 Character Encodings
2.3 Fonts
2.4 The User Interface: Data Input and Output
2.5 Locales
2.6 Input methods
2.7 Output methods
2.8 Representing Indian Languages on a Computer

3 Tutorial: Indic Scripts under the X Window System

3.1.

II. Standards

4 Introduction to Indian Language Standards

5 The ISCII Standard

6 Indian Standard Font Code

7 Indian Standard Code for Language Pager

8 Kannada Standard Code for Language Processing (KSCLP)

9 The TSCII Standard

10 The Unicode Standard

10.1 Introduction
10.2 Problems with the standard

III. Indic Scripts

11 Scripts and Writing Systems

11.1 Overview
11.2 Script information
11.3 References

12 Devanagari

13 Gurmukhi

14 Kannada Script

15 Malayalam Script

16 Tamil Script

17 Telugu Script

IV. Indian Languages

18 Indic Languages

18.1 Overview
18.2 Language Information
18.3 References

19 Assamese

23 Malayalam

23.1 Linguistic Analysis
23.2 Character Encodings
23.3 Input Methods
23.4 Text Processing
23.5 Typography and Display
23.6 Locale Information
23.7 Malayalam Resources

V. Programming Information

28 Locales

VI. Appendices

A. Bibliography

A.1 Malayalam
A.2 Unicode

B. Resources on the Internet

B.1 Mailing Lists

List of Figures
2-1. Hyphenation positions (Devanagari)
2-2. Glyphs of different styles for the character LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A
2-3. Wide encodings vs Multi-byte encodings

		Next
		Preface

This, and other project documentation, can be downloaded from [ http://indic-computing.sourceforge.net/documentation.html ].

Copyright © 2001--2009 The Indic-Computing Project.
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