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Using Unicode for Indian

Languages
Dr. Umesh Kumar Singh
Assistant Professor
School of Indic Studies,
Institute of Advanced Sciences, Dartmouth, USA

Saturday, April 24, 2021 भारतीय भाषाओं के लए Unicode का योग 1


System before Unicode
• ASCII (AMERICAN STANDARD CODE FOR
INFORMATION INTERCHANGE)

• ISCII (INDIAN STANDARD CODE FOR INFORMATION


INTERCHANGE)

Saturday, April 24, 2021 भारतीय भाषाओं के लए Unicode का योग 2


Beginning of Unicode
• Unicode was joint consortium of international software
companies
• Companies were- IBM, Microsoft, Apple,
• Unicode started in 1988

Saturday, April 24, 2021 भारतीय भाषाओं के लए Unicode का योग 3


Unicode encoding system for Indian
Languages

• http://www.unicode.org/charts/

• https://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0900.pdf

Saturday, April 24, 2021 भारतीय भाषाओं के लए Unicode का योग 4


What is necessary for typing in Unicode?
• System Support

• Unicode Font- Mangal, Arial Unicode MS etc.

• Input system- Software or Keyboard- IME

Saturday, April 24, 2021 भारतीय भाषाओं के लए Unicode का योग 5


System Support

• Android- Supports
• PC- Windows supports but extra language pack was necessary
till Windows XP
• Linux is versatile and lots of support
• Apple OS supports Unicode

Saturday, April 24, 2021 भारतीय भाषाओं के लए Unicode का योग 6


Unicode Font
Unicode fonts by Microsoft-
• Arial Unicode MS
• Mangal
• Utsaah
• Kokila
• Sanskrit Text-best but have only regular face
Lots of other fonts by other vendors
Akruti Publisher, Murti, Chhandas etc.

Saturday, April 24, 2021 भारतीय भाषाओं के लए Unicode का योग 7


Input systems- Software or Keyboard or Input
Method Editor (IME)
Phonetic input system
• Baraha IME
• Google Indic input tool (Currently not available for PC)
• Microsoft IME for Indian Languages
• Vidyut phonetic keyboard
• सं ृ त िह ी नेपाली क बोड

Saturday, April 24, 2021 भारतीय भाषाओं के लए Unicode का योग 8


Non Phonetic Keyboards
• Inscript keyboards-Windows Language support

• Virtual Keyboard- By Google in Android Phones

Saturday, April 24, 2021 भारतीय भाषाओं के लए Unicode का योग 9


Google Indic Keyboard for Android

Saturday, April 24, 2021 भारतीय भाषाओं के लए Unicode का योग 10


सं ृ त िह ी नेपाली क बोड

Saturday, April 24, 2021 भारतीय भाषाओं के लए Unicode का योग 11


सं ृ त िह ी नेपाली क बोड-With Shift

Saturday, April 24, 2021 भारतीय भाषाओं के लए Unicode का योग 12


सं ृ त िह ी नेपाली क बोड-With ctrl+alt

Saturday, April 24, 2021 भारतीय भाषाओं के लए Unicode का योग 13


Thank You

Saturday, April 24, 2021 भारतीय भाषाओं के लए Unicode का योग 14

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