[Oriya-group] Fwd: Re: [indic] Indic Unicode Character level Text-Editor/Data-processor

[Hariram Pansari]

Forwarded.

Steve Smith <steve_smith at sall.com> wrote:  From: "Steve Smith" <steve_smith at sall.com>
Subject: Re: [indic] Indic Unicode Character level Text-Editor/Data-processor
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 04:47:04 -0400

         As an example, searching for all occurrences of the sequence  दय will not find the word दया (or any sequence like  दये or दयु), at least in Word 2003.
   
    > This seriously hampers Advanced Indic Computing uses.
   
  It certainly does. Searching for a sequence of characters should find that sequence if it occurs in the text, regardless of what precedes or follows. Perhaps the behaviour should be user-selectable (ie, an option like "match whole syllable", analagous to "match whole word" which is already an option).
   
  Matching the character string should not be a problem. I think the difficulty is in rendering the result, ie, highlighting only part of the cluster. And what if your search includes a consonant which occurs as part of a cluster that gets rendered as a conjunct (eg, search for क when the text contains क्ष) How do you highlight the क? It's a non-trivial problem. But personally, I would be happy to have the conjunct character (or entire syllable, as the case may be) highlighted. At least it would let me know that the search string was found.
   
  I echo Hariram's query for information on applications where this does work.
   
  Regards, 
   
  Steve.

    ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Hariram Pansari 
  To: Indic at unicode.org 
  Cc: nlpia2005 at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 8:23 AM
  Subject: [indic] Indic Unicode Character level Text-Editor/Data-processor
  

  At present
  - in MS Windows XP / MS word XP/2003
  and also
  - in Linux Kbabel
  - in Yudit
  - in all other Unicode softwares/text editors/Databases,
  ......
  .....
   
  I request the list to inform:
  If any Unicode charcter level Indic text/data editor/processor software is available?
   
  Hariram

 		
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