An Analysis of Difficulties in Punjabi Language Automation due to Non-standardization of Fonts

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  • Dharam Veer Sharma
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Non-standardization of fonts and some inherent characteristics of Indian scripts make it difficult to use them in automation of systems. This is true for all the Indic scripts because of no direct support of the character sets of Indic scripts in ASCII, which had been the prevalent standard till recent past. Though Unicode solves most of the problems but conversion of existing data from ASCII based font to Unicode is a major challenge in itself. This paper covers properties of Punjabi language, difficulties encountered in font conversion of Punjabi language.

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تاریخ انتشار 2011