UBC indic

SR No.: 269719
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ashok Aklujkar
Publisher: Ashok Aklujkar
Total Pages: 26
Language: English
Classification: Article
File Size: 2 MB

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UBC INDIC
FEATURES OF UBC INDIC:
2.1 The disk seeks to meet primarily the requirements of scholars
working with materials in languages of India, especially the requirements of Indologists. However, its usefulness is not confined to this group. Even those in whose writings Indian words figure infrequently or at a popular level will find the disk to be more of a convenience than the start-up disk
that comes with the Macintosh computer.
2.2 The disk makes it possible to print Roman script as it is used for
English, French accented words, German words containing umlaut vowels, the distinctive Roman characters or diacritical marks that figure in the standard Roman transliteratations of Indic language materials, and at least one Indic script (see 2.3 below) other than the Perso-Arabic script used for Urdu (see 2.4 below). Thus, the fonts most commonly needed by Indologists
are all present on a single disk.
2.3 The Indic script available at present is Nāgari, but its place on the
disk could easily be taken by any other script of Brāhmi origin; all one will have to do is to rearrange the available fonts for Bengali, Gurmukhi, Tamil, etc. on the pattern of UBC Nāgari. In fact, one could then very easily substitute one Indic script for another by substituting one type of UBC Indic disk (say, the one containing Nāgari) by another type of UBC Indic disk (say, the one containing Malayalam) as a start-up disk. These disks would be identical except for the individual Indic fonts. Another possibility is to use a double-sided disk and preserve more than one Indic script on it.