Telecom Minister Raja releases Software Tools & Fonts for 6 Indian ...

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  1. “ Under TDIL programme, we are working towards a wired world which overcomes the English barrier and the National Roll Out initiative is a first step in this direction. We are also working on internationalization issues of World Wide Web (w3c) standards towards futuristic and interoperable web technologies. The tools provided on these CDs are Unicode complaint and easy to use which will have multiplying effect on the creation of multilingual websites. Language technology is the backbone of Indian economy and promises a great hope for the export looking software industry to start looking at local markets leading to a domestic IT boom by building customized and localized IT solutions. Now this project has to go beyond the technology development goal and couple it with initiatives of other Ministries and State Governments in percolating the use of these tools to reach the wider segment of the society. ”
  2. “ The entire concept of making available the software tools and fonts for the 22 official Indian languages has been a challenging responsibility to our entire team. The seriousness of our efforts and the relevance of our hard work can only be measured by the acceptance of the software tools and fonts by our fellow citizens, who are already benefiting from our previous releases. We do hope that the current release will serve as a much needed elixir to the cause of multilingual computing and reaffirm our commitment ”

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