TDIL (Technology Development for Indian Languages)

The Department of Information Technology initiated the TDIL (Technology Development
for Indian Languages) with the objective of developing Information Processing Tools and
Techniques to facilitate human-machine interaction without language barrier; creating and
accessing multilingual knowledge resources; and integrating them to develop innovative user
products and services. There are many issues that have to be tackled because of the diverse and
complex language system in India.
Key issues include keyboard layout, IT localization, Vedic code set, Unicode for Indian scripts…
Indian Language Keyboard is categorized into three parts namely, Inscript, Phonetic and
Typewriter keyboards. The Indian language alphabet table is divided into Vowels (Swar) and
Consonants (Vyanjan). The INSCRIPT (Indian Script) keyboard was standardized by Department
of Information Technology (DIT) and was declared as National Standard by Bureau of Indian
Standard (BIS). Very recently a single solution was found out for the incorporation of a new

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