1. Unicode - Practicals
a. Create a simple document using
Word Processor / Excel in an Indian
Language (Marathi/Hindi) making
use of an Unicode font.
2. Unicode - Practicals
b Convert the given English Paragraph in
to Marathi/Hindi using Google
Transliterator.
3. Unicode - Practicals
c Goolge Translate – Text Convert the
given English Paragraph in to Hindi using
Google Translator.
d. Goolge Translate – Convert Document
typed in English in to Hindi using Google
Translator.
4. Unicode -
Reality:
Unicode is supported by the IT industry including Microsoft, Sun,
IBM, Apple, HP and Oracle. To make documents more readable
across platforms and machines, the Unicode specification was
created and has been implemented in many systems.
Unicode - Benefits
1. User can continue to work in the same manner.
2. Unicode doesn’t play any role in pricing decisions. (We use
softwares now Unicode compliant.)
3. Unicode is only a standard, not a software or technology.
4. Unicode based documents take a little extra space than the
non-Unicode ones.
5. Unicode -
Unicode Encoding - An encoding system, like ASCII assigns a number
to each letter, number or character.
Unicode, also known as UTF-8 or the "Universal Alphabet" is an ordered
set of over a million characters.
Systems recognize Unicode, can read and process data from many
languages. Unicode was developed way back in 1990s.
Unicode aims to transcend the limitations of traditional character
encodings such as those defined by the ISO 8859 standard.
Many older Web sites were vendor specific and complicated. To
view a Unicode document, a computer must have font installed
includes characters for the script.
Unicode fonts are two types - Arial Unicode MS (for Windows) and
Lucida Unicode (Macintosh).
6. What is Unicode?
Most-complete character-set.
The largest encoding scheme.
Supports major scripts and multi-lingual environments supports
mathematics, scientific symbols also.
Unicode ensures standardization for data use and storage. Being a 16 bit
encoding standard, Unicode can represent 65,536 characters.
It is promoted by Unicode Consortium.
Unicode works across …
Hardware platforms (Desktops, Laptops, PDAs etc from various
Manufacturer like Intel processor based PC, Apple Macintosh
machine, AMD processor based PCs )
Operating Systems (Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD etc.)
Software programs (Unicode compliant)
Languages (Most of the world’s languages )
All major browsers - Internet Explorer for Windows, Internet Explorer for
Macintosh , Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Opera
7. Languages Interoperability –
Unicode different scripts co-exist harmoniously in single document.
User can shift between languages/scripts without using separate
software for each language.
9. Introduction
We were facing many problems
while typing anything in
regional languages other than
English.
Solution for all these questions
is Unicode.
We shall learn how to work
with Unicode. ‘BarahaIME‘ is
one of many Unicode softwares
available on internet.
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10. What is Unicode?
There is code for each character
in computer. Different codes for
single character were made
which are changing according to
software. If we make single
code for single character, then it
will minimize problems in
typing. And this lead to
discovery of Unicode system.
Now, Control panel window will
be displayed on the screen Select
‘Regional and Language’ option.
Double click. You will get
‘Regional and language option’
window. Select Language option
from it’s menu
12. You will get Add Input language window.
Select button in input
language box so that it will
give list of available regional
languages. Select Marathi
from that list.
13. Again select keyboard layout option from ‘Add input language’
and select Marathi option from list, then click on OK
In Preferences - Follow Language
Bar settings shown above
14. You have to remember key (shift + ctrl +0 ) in ‘switch to Marathi –
Marathi’ option. For this, again you have to select key setting
which will give ‘Advanced key setting’ window. Go to ‘Marathi –
Marathi’ option, finally click on OK button, so that Marathi will be
successfully installed using Unicode system in your computer
Now computer is ready to
work with Marathi using
Unicode.
There will be Language Bar
on task bar of your
computer. From that you will
understand which language
is active on computer.
15. We have to use Inscript Keyboard. In this method, it is necessary
for us to learn typing. Keyboard layout is given below.
Alternative for this is BarahaIME software which includes phonetic keyboard and
in script method. For Computer Users, in general, Phonetic keyboard is more
easier than in script method. While using BARAH IME in Office 2007, use F11 -
Function key for language change.
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18. Google Translate
Google Translate is a free automatic translator. (Currently supports
57 languages (Available in Hindi but not for Marathi)
Translate text
To translate words and phrases, select translation language and start
typing. The translation result will appear instantly. (PC be Javascript
enabled )
Input text phonetically
Many languages are difficult to type as keyboard layout is complex
While translating, you type these languages as they sound in
English - for example, "You" for " " in Hindi, this translation will
be displayed in the widow on right hand side.
19. Google Translate
Translate the Document
Google Translate is an easy way to translate whole document
without the need for copying and pasting block of text. Click
translate a document link and submit your file as a PDF, TXT, DOC,
PPT, XLS or RTF. Original formatting may not be preserved.
The Google Translate Web Element allows you to instantly make
your website available in other languages.
21. Google Transliterate – www.google.com /inputtools/cloud/try/
Google Transliteration converts Roman characters to their
phonetic equivalent in desired language, note that this is not
translation. - It is the sound of the words that are converted
from one alphabet to the other, not their meaning.
Transliteration is available for many languages (at present 23 .
Transliteration is also available in Blogger, Gmail, Orkut.
Correcting and editing words - Sometimes the transliteration may
not be what you were looking for.
Switching between English and transliteration language -
Pressing SHIFT + SPACE after a word skips transliteration of the
previous word.
Using the dictionary - Google Transliteration has integrated with
Google Dictionary to provide a convenient in-place method to look
up word meanings across languages.
