Sorry, you comment "So far, not many federal initiatives have been put into place, nor a single policy level change has been made, to implement a standard as simple as like Unicode for easy access of information. " is plain wrong. In 1991, the Department of Electronics (now part of MCIT) had worked in concert with C-DAC and BIS to standardize ISCII - a forerunner of 16-bit Unicode. There had been significant work that had been done in Indian languages with federal funding. One of the big issues was state-level support. All states were trying to develop their own standards for keyboard entry etc. yes, work done in popularizing the tools was not in the right earnest - it took C-DAC far too long to open its technologies - unfortunately that was a result of some bad decisions taken earlier on.
Today, the biggest problem I feel that users face is the lack of input devices. Though we had the Brahmi keyboard which is very good, but sadly, it is not bundled in the OS and it is difficult to get keyboard stickers also :(
Sorry, you comment "So far, not many federal initiatives have been put into place, nor a single policy level change has been made, to implement a standard as simple as like Unicode for easy access of information. " is plain wrong. In 1991, the Department of Electronics (now part of MCIT) had worked in concert with C-DAC and BIS to standardize ISCII - a forerunner of 16-bit Unicode. There had been significant work that had been done in Indian languages with federal funding. One of the big issues was state-level support. All states were trying to develop their own standards for keyboard entry etc. yes, work done in popularizing the tools was not in the right earnest - it took C-DAC far too long to open its technologies - unfortunately that was a result of some bad decisions taken earlier on.
Today, the biggest problem I feel that users face is the lack of input devices. Though we had the Brahmi keyboard which is very good, but sadly, it is not bundled in the OS and it is difficult to get keyboard stickers also :(