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India is a country of diverse culture. It has 22 official languages and over a thousand spoken languages. India also has a very fast growing base of Netizens. Recent years have seen a fast growth of internet awareness in India. Unfortunately the growth of Indian Language Web Content is not that good. Most of the web sites published from India are in English, and not in Hindi or other regional languages.
The prime reason for this is not the non-availability of technology, but the non-awareness about available technology. There are ample of solutions available for web publishing in Indian languages today. Even feature rich content management systems are available. But where is the awareness?
Web Designers often ask me.... Can we publish our site in Hindi? Why not, I say! It's as easy publishing your web site in Hindi as it is in English. What extra skills do you need? Technically not much, because the tools available can take the sweat out from your job.
Once upon a time displaying Indian language Contents in a web browser was an impossible task. It was in 1995 that a Mumbai based company - Cybershoppee - took lead and few like minded technologists came togather in making the firstever Indian language website. Ever since then, new tools are getting added for web publishing in Hindi and other languages.
With the introduction of UNICODE, things have started becoming more easy. In the early days, fonts of the TTF category were used, now they have been replaced by UNICODE. No doubt, UNICODE is still to settle, fact remains that the default UNICODE font Mangal being available in OS like MS Windows XP and above, makes it easy for the ndian Webmaster to at least think of having his web site in Indian Language.
It's now even possible to directly type the text contents in Indian Languages inside a web based form. Thus managing Indian language contents is no longer an issue. Already many web sites are using this technology that also offers added user convenience.
In the Indian market, at least 5 suits of applications are readily available, to manage the contents. In some of my later articles I will be taking a review of these applications that are helping spread Indian language Contents on the web.
