Questions tagged [indic]

Indic scripts are the writing systems that are used by languages spoken by about two billion people in India and its neighboring countries, as well is Southeast Asian countries such as Thailand, Burma, Laos, Cambodia and Indonesia. These scripts developed from the ancient Brahmic script and share similar features, which make them challenging for use in computers: many ligatures, complex letter ordering rules and partial support in common operating systems.

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Convert page to Indic Scripts

I just created a text page in my app and now i want to change language of this page dynamically to Indian languages like Telugu, Tamil, Bengla, Guujrati and Punjabi. I researched a lot, and got that there are only 2 methods to achieve this(please…
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How do you reliably render Khmer (Indic) fonts on the web (and in PDFs)?

I've been having a world of trouble getting Khmer fonts (an Indic script of Cambodia) to render reliably on the web across platforms (Mac, Windows, Linux). Google web fonts recently added Khmer, which seems like the best bet. However, I have not…
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Google input tools for sinhala language source code

I am interested in the Google input tools for Sinhala language. I used google but I was unable to find the source code for this. But anyway, I found this. It is for Chinese language. Does anyone know where I can find the Google input tools for…
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howto : output utf-8(kannada) characters in windows terminal using java

am working on a java(tomcat) app. that sometimes writes to stdout. But I notice that indic languages(say, kannada) turn out as ?????? characters on the std. windows console(terminal) on Windows Vista (SP1 Home premium 64-bit). I know that I could…
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Displaying complex indic Bangla font in JavaFX

In my program I am reading a Bangla (Indic Language) text from a UTF-8 file and displaying in Text component of JavaFx. Though the characters are being displayed , they are not positioned properly. In this type of complex script language some of the…
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Want to display data in Indian Regional language(Telugu,Hindi,Tamil and Malayalam) from RSSFeed in android?

I am developing an application for newspaper. I want to get the data from a RSSfeed and I want to display the data in a ListView manner with Regional Languages. How can this be done in android?
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Dictionary Component or source code that can check in multiple languages

We are developing an application in which we need to implement spell checking for Indic languages that use ANSI fonts (not UNICODE) I am looking for a Dictionary Component or Source Code that will allow: To maintain separate dictionaries like for…
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How can I solve jukto(connected) words in Bangla font in Android?

Here is my code for Bangla in Android: package com.exam; import android.app.Activity; import android.graphics.Typeface; import android.os.Bundle; import android.widget.TextView; public class TextDifferentActivity extends Activity { @Override …
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Image Magick - complex character in Kannada (indic language) not being rendered properly

I'm trying to use imagemagick to generate some images of Kannada text. The problem is that complex characters are being rendered separately (not together as they should be... imagine that "ku" should be one character, but it is rendered first as…
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In tkinter text widget, failed to type in Indian language, rendering shows?

import tkinter as tk from tkinter import * app = tk.Tk() app.geometry("1000x1000") app.title("Desktop Translation App") label1 = tk.Label(app, text="Sentence to Translate") label1.grid(row=1, column=0) label2=tk.Label(app,text="Add Translation…
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Marathi - Speech to Text on Android

Google Speech-to-Text API supports Marathi as per their documentation here. However I have not been able to get it working on my Android phone. I have already added 'Marathi' in languages for my Android device (Moto G6, running android 7.1.1).…
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complex text layout of Indic scripts

I am using unicode truetype fonts for telugu.I want to input a sequence of unicode characters in the range specified for telugu and use java functions to display the corresponding letters.Which part of java handles breaking the sequence into…
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Chunking for Tamil language

I want to use the NLTK chunker for Tamil language (which is an Indic language). However, it says that it doesn't support Unicode because it uses the 'pre' module for regular expressions. Unresolved Issues If we use the re module for regular…
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Querying and extracting a Unicode value from sqlite3 in Python

I'm having issues trying to extract utf-8 encoded values stored in an sqlite3 database in python. >> import sqlite3 >> connection=sqlite3.connect('mySQLite3DB.db') >> cursor=connection.cursor() >> word = unichr(2675)+unichr(37) # ੳ% >>…
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How to display local Indian languages in from unicode?

I am trying to display local Indian languages in my application. The data for the application is from web. I use a web service to display the contents from DB. I am converting the data in format of unicode and i receive the unicode in phone. Am…
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