Re: Hindi and Software

[FREDERICK NORONHA <fred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is not linked to Linux, but to computers as such. Just to give an idea 
of what is being done on the Windows front. It's from our 
http://www.bytesforall.org site, on which there are other examples too. This 
should be critical area if we are to expand the base for computing in South 
Asia. -FN

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EMAIL-SOFTWARE 'INDOMAIL' CAN WRITE 12 LANGUAGES
Madras-based Lastech Systems Private Ltd has launched its e-mail
Software - "IndoMail", which facilitates sending e-mails in 12
Indian Languages. The languages covered by IndoMail are
Assamesse, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi,
Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil and Telugu.
IndoMail, priced at Rs 400, ensures that any Email client
software like Netscape Mail, Microsoft Outlook, Eudora can be 
used to read the Indian language mail.
The range of products offered by the company include Indoword,
Indovision, Indobase, Indoweb and Exact. All the products are
available in 10 Indian languages including Tamil.
http://www.economictimes.com/today/15tech10.htm
http://www.lastech.com/

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ANOTHER SOFTWARE FOR PAKISTAN, ARABIC SCRIPT
A web-based e-mail service Raakim.com [http://raakim.com] offers
e-mails in Urdu, Arabic, Persian, Sindhi, Punjabi, Pashtoo, and
Baluchi -- all are written in the Arabic script.