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I reckon high growth in Indic script content.
Due to lack of standardization, most of publishing was controlled by few entities and there was minimum integration or transportability between them.
On the web rare content is available in Indic scripts which includes Devnagri -Marathi, Hindi, Gujarati, gurumukhi (punjabi) and many other indian languages.
After introduction of Unicode and its support on all windows XP platform, it is vere much standardised now.
Read more about Unicode and its significance visit:
http://www.bhashaindia.com/Developers/KnowHow/Unicode/index.htm
In order to get more insights of using Indic scripts in writing etc, visit following website: http://www.bhashaindia.com/Patrons/PatronsHome.aspx
To enable script support on XP and 2000, visit
http://www.bhashaindia.com/Developers/MSTech/IndicSupport/indicinstall.aspx
In order to install other components which can be used to write in Word etc, visit
http://www.bhashaindia.com/downloadsV2/index.aspx
First time I am happy about something done by Microsoft.
If interested in sharing Wikipedia is looking for volunteers to write and manage content in indic languages. If you are good at writing content in Indic languages, just pick up and start.
HINDI
http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki
MARATHI
http://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki
GUJARATI
http://gu.wikipedia.org/wiki
Please follow other links for other languages.
There are few things which cannot be shared in English.
WIth such a diverse rich languages, we can share much better information.
India is having high population of english speaking professionals.
But our 95% population cannot speak fluently, and 97% use other languages as their primary language.
Most of population in developed cities ranging above 35 years old find it difficult to use computers or need assistance because of language gap.
This population is having money to spend, they are well educated and intelligent enough to conduct business online.
If we can develope our systems to reach them, it can revolutionalise our development and open up many possibilities.
There is a big world out there, lets tap the potential.
:vinayak
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