Jui Mhatre, Siji Sunny

Vedic Sanskrit on GNU/LINUX

We will describe the enabling of Vedic Sanskrit, an ancient Indian Language, the language of the Vedas on GNU Linux Platform using Indix Library. \n\n\nAmongst all other Indian languages, Vedic Sanskrit needs more attention due to its ancient knowledge base in oral and written traditions. The structure of Vedic Sanskrit includes multi-tier usages of diacritic marks of complex compositions, signs that appear above, below and at sides of the base character. This complexity is implemented by Indix followed by font processing.\n\n\nSanskrit grammar has distinguished the terms Varna (phoneme) and Akshara (syllable) in the context of spoken and written text. Phoneme or cluster of phonemes make a syllable. Hence we have considered Phoneme as the base encoded character for text generation and word processing. \n\n\nThe basic difficulty is that Unicode has not defined the character codes for Vedic signs and makes some recommendations for necessary text operations like input order, rendering on display and paper, editing text etc.

-- AndrewLynn - 02 Nov 2007