DIT to release CDs in 7 Indian languages

NEW DELHI: Taking language computing a step forward, the department of Information Technology is all set to release CDs in seven Indian languages, which will contain software tools and fonts, and is to be distributed free to the public.

According to highly placed sources in the government, the Union Communications and IT minister, Dayanidhi Maran will be releasing the CDs of Assamese, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi and Urdu in Delhi tomorrow.

This will be in addition to the three CDs in Tamil, Hindi and Telugu, which the DIT had already released.

The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, an autonomous scientific society under the Administrative Control of Department of Information Technology and had developed all these language CDs in partnership with academic institutions, R&D Labs and private industries

The CDs will contain features such as True type fonts with keyboard driver, multi-font keyboard engine for true type fonts, Unicode compliant open type fonts, Unicode compliant keyboard driver, generic fonts code and storage code converter, localized version of BharateeyaOO, English version of BharateeyaOO, Spellchecker, bilingual dictionary, transliteration tool, language tutor package, etc.

The language tools and fonts are also being made available on website: www.ildc.in and www.ildc.gov.in for free downloads online.

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