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A prototype is expected to hit the market by the end of 2003 and the distribution will have a Nepali language environment that may look like the mock screen (see pic). Besides, it is also very secure compared to its counterparts. He is currently working on the Nepali distribution of Linux and believes it is 'fast, stable, not necessarily shell based and is user friendly'. Upgrading means expensive new hardware.ДЄnother project engineer, Paras Pradhan, is flogging Linux.

#ALL NEPALI FONTS SOFTWARE#

Bikram Shrestha, coordinator at the Centre for Software Development and Research at Kantipur City College explains: 'A Unicode-based Nepali font ensures logical and scientific data input, but this system requires a minimum of Windows 2000 or XP.' Most Nepali users have only Windows98.

'The database had to be redone in Unicode-based fonts, but now the user can interact with the machine to view the result from the name of the book, author, date of publication, publisher and with sundry options.'Д«efore we start celebrating, there is still a slight technical hiccup. Pawan Chitrakar is thrilled with the results at the archives of the Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya. The project is developing a spell checker and dictionary that can be embedded with popular word processors supported by Unesco, making word processing in Nepali as easy and enjoyable as it is in English. 'The Unicode-based Nepali font will allow local cultures to be expressed in digital technology,' says Gurung. Project director Amar Gurung says the new system ensures uniformity between different Nepali font faces based on the Unicode system and opens up new possibilities for Nepalis to use computers. Madan Puraskar Putakalaya in collaboration with United Nations Development Program and the Ministry of Science and Technology have accomplished a Font Standardisation Project by writing a Unicode-based Nepali version of the Devanagiri keyboard input system in two different versions. The Devanagiri script has already made a niche in Unicode: fonts can be interchanged without problems. With the help of Unicode, small linguistic communities all over the world get mainstream software in their own language instead of waiting years for special adaptations that may never come. Unicode is also central to the new internationalised domain names, which allows the internet user to have URLs in their own languages. Users can view the document in any platform without the hassle of conversion. It not only standardises a set of fonts allowing non-Roman users to input data uniformly, but it also has room for 65,000+ characters in contrast to the ASCII system that supports a measly 255.Дocuments and databases based on Unicode form an independent platform regardless of the operating system. We need uniformity and if we don't do something now there could be chaos ahead. Nepali computing cannot progress with the conventional font system. 'It's really a nuisance to convert files sent in other Nepali fonts,' complains Hari Narayan Yadab of Kantipur Publications. Having to switching between different Nepali fonts just adds to the confsuion. Nepali language users are still confounded with the 'ke ho ke ho' computer. The digital gap is widened because our computers are hardwired to English. Even if desktop publishers and printing presses can produce creative Nepali page layouts, the computer still interprets those Nepali letters and characters as distorted English inputs.

#ALL NEPALI FONTS PC#

There has been a proliferation of Nepali fonts, but these only reduce the PC to a glorified typewriter with a monitor added on.

This immediately excludes those who read and write exclusively in Nepali. To be able to use a computer, the user must have more than a rudimentary grasp of the global lingua franca.

No more.Д®ver since the first computer came to Nepal 32 years ago-a second generation IBM 1401-it has been the computer's language that has stymied progress. One of the things (besides affordability) that keeps computers out of reach of most Nepalis is that it is all in English.

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