Yes, it is vary important to provide Indic facilities compulsorily in India. As 92% of Indian public not efficient in English.
But, the 'Simple' solution may not be possible. TRAI will do so? Doubt. Who will bell the cat? Further - If all world languages support is made available on all mobile handsets, even if the Govts provides free of cost all the tools/fonts/IMEs/USPs, the handset will require more memory and ROM space, which will increase the cost. Because people use mobile handsets according to their affordability. Unicode CLDR and some tools are (I think) available free of cost. Many Mobile handsets has hundreds of languages IME etc facilities. Further, now a days everything depends upon the consumers demand. If crores of people demand Indic, Mobile manufacturers will provide automatically for there market capture and business profit. No any interfere by any Govt. authority will be needed. However Govt. need to control them with some defined standards. GOI authorities are taking some steps : http://tdil.mit.gov.in/IL_mobile.htm But they should take strong actions and promptly. Standards must be released within a time frame few months, "not years". As technology is developing with lightning speed. Here, the issue is only that : The informations available on the websites of Mobile manufacturers/resellers One subject-heading must be added about : -- Unicode/UTF8 compatibility and -- Available Languages/Scripts IMEs/Fonts/USPs/Dictionaries/tools etc. facilities. so that consumers can choice as per their needs. It will be better : if It can be made mandatory for the mobile phone manufacturers to provide Additional Language patches softwares of IMEs/fonts/SPs/tools to download and install in the handsets, people can use them as per their need and install in the Memory Cards, SD Cards/Micro SD cards additionally installed in their handsets. So that, the original firmware of Mobile handsets will not be disturbed. It will be more better if some standards released early for this purpose for world wide compatibility. Regards. -- Hariram On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Dr Pavanaja <[email protected]>wrote: > Simple solution; Let TRAI issue an order making it compulsory to all > handset manufacturers to implement Indic Unicode in all handsets sold in > India. All platforms do support Unicode. It is the lethargy or the business > decision by the manufacturers not to implement Indic Unicode. > > Someone should wakeup the authorities from their deep sleep. > > -Pavanaja > > > >
