Biswas, Subal Chandra(INFLIBNET Centre, October 10, 2005)
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Abstract:
With the recent rapid dissemination over the international computer networks of world-wide
distributed document bases, the question of multilingual access and multilingual information
retrieval is becoming increasingly relevant. Briefly discusses some of the issues that must
be addressed in order to implement a multilingual interface for a digital library system in
general, and the problems associated with character encoding of multilingual text in
particular. Highlights the development of Unicode Standard, which is envisioned as a solution
to the problem of multilingual character encoding and its progressive implementation by
the computer industry, including the library community. Concludes that library and
information networks in India must adopt Unicode to digitize and provide access to the rich
repertoire of literature generated in scores of Indian languages.