[Wikimediaindia-l] (OT) On the importance of Unicode

[Bala Jeyaraman]

>>On input methods - is there anything of a best practice or even a
Government notification about an input standard?

In Tamil Nadu, the govt recommends and endorses the Tamil 99 keyboard
layout.

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Shiju Alex <shijualexonline at gmail.com>wrote:

> Even though Central Government has adopted Unicode as the encoding
> standard, the case is not the same with most State Governments. As far as I
> know only few state goverments (Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Kerala,...) had adopted
> Unicode standard. Many are still in the ASCII era.
>
> On input methods - is there anything of a best practice or even a
>>
> Government notification about an input standard?
>>
>
> I haven't seen any notification regarding this yet. But InScript is
> officially/unofficially adopted as the default input scheme. That is why it
> is part school syllabus in some states.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Gautam John <gautam at prathambooks.org>wrote:
>
>> Two things I meant to add:
>>
>> 1. The eGov standards body for India has recently notified Unicode
>> 5.1.0 as the default standard for all eGov applications henceforth.
>> (Sadly, their website is DoA - http://egovstandards.gov.in/) I am
>> hopeful that this will be the start of some initiative within
>> Government and would, hopefully, spread.
>>
>> A cache of their Approach Paper on Localization is here:
>>
>>
>> http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:e28QCFBDI-cJ:egovstandards.gov.in/standards_localisation_app+india+egov+standards+unicode&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=in&source=www.google.co.in
>>
>> And a cache their Character Encoding Standard For Indian Languages is
>> here:
>>
>>
>> http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:dYxnM6D7IMQJ:egovstandards.gov.in/egscontent.2009-12-29.6248244073/at_download/file+india+egov+standards+unicode&hl=en&gl=in&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgxDT6JyHRlgWfR2TKYHKRGeAM5PigxzZAPyo2M1d6rxGnOC3sQ0S5XVDVVvPL_t5ZKmui0ghMMO63q2hZMT_WeJq0WH5FnEFYFioh7EZ_Uzj8XPnvVMatGZ4vO9kv6RXJZM56e&sig=AHIEtbQnDd2Gy29vyy97FnvAw2g4hN3cqQ
>>
>> 2. On input methods - is there anything of a best practice or even a
>> Government notification about an input standard?
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Gautam
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