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Subject: Re: Indian character sets wanted
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Date: Mon, 17-Oct-83 12:06:44 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 17 12:06:44 1983
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Several groups in India have worked on devanagari character
displays.  In fact, televison monitors in the Delhi airport use both
roman script and devanagari.

The problem is quite complicated, since adjacent consonants are
merged together to form new characters.  Thus there are many
different characters, and some are quite complicated--they require
many scan lines.

Two groups in particular have worked on this problem in the past;
I'm sure they'd send you papers.  I don't know the researchers'
names but try:

     Tata Institute for Fundamental Research
     Bombay, India

or   Computer Centre
     Indian Institute of Technology
     Kanpur, UP     India