Indic Computing comes of age
While on the statistical front the demand for local language applications is significant, estimated at $64 million by 2004, on the market front it still remains minuscule. Computing in a vernacular language has never been easy—if the content was there then the fonts were missing, and if the fonts and content were there, then the coding was missing. In the last ten years of existence the Indian language applications market has had more hits than misses and is only now gearing up to come into its own, says Chris Ann Fichardo