Indic Computing means "computing in Indic" i.e. Indian Scripts and Languages. It involves developing software in Indic Scripts/languages, Input methods, Localization of computer applications, web development, Database Management, OCR, Spell-checkers, Speech to Text and Text to Speech applications etc. in Indian languages.
Most of the Indic scripts nowadays use Unicode for working on Computers and Internet. In Unicode 5.0 following Indian Scripts have been encoded:
- Bengali script
- Devanagari
- Gujarati
- Gurmukhi
- Kannada
- Limbu
- Malayalam
- Oriya
- Sinhala
- Syloti Nagri
- Tamil
- Telugu
A lot of Indic Computing projects are going on. They involve some government sector companies, some volunteer groups and individual people.
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