Vaidya, Nagaraj N; Jayakanth, Francis(INFLIBNET Center, February 2, 2006)
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Abstract:
Today 80 % of the content on the Web is in English, which is spoken by only 8% of the World
population and 5% of Indian population. There is wealth of useful content in the various
languages of the world other than English, which can be made available on the Internet.
But, to date, for various reasons most of it is not yet available on the Internet. India itself has
18 officially recognized languages and scores of dialects. Although the medium of instruction
for most of the higher education and research in India is English, substantial amount of
literature by way of novels, textbooks, scholarly information are being generated in the
other languages in the country. Many of the e-governance initiatives are in the respective
state languages. In the past, support for different languages by the operating systems and
the software packages were not very encouraging. However, with the advent of Unicode
technology, operating systems and software packages are supporting almost all the major
languages of the world that have scripts. In the work reported in this paper, we have explained
the configuration changes that are needed for Eprints.org software to store multilingual
content and to create a multilingual user interface.