Modular wins award for best Hindi computer package

Pune-based Modular Infotech has been awarded the `Best Hindi Computer Package’

second prize by Ministry of Information Technology (MIT), government of India

fir its Shree-Lipi Suchika Package. MIT gives these awards in recognition to

companies spearheading the movement to spread Indian languages software in the

country.

Suchika is useful in government offices and corporate sectors where the data

is to be maintained in English as well as regional languages. It is useful for

programmers who need online indexing and auto transliteration facilities, from

English to a regional language and vice versa. Users of database packages like

DBASE and FoxPro under Windows face a lot of difficulties in using Indian

languages. These database packages are basically designed for English in which

sorting or indexing is done on characters as they exist in the font. Shree-Lipi

Suchika promises to solve these difficulties.

In Indian languages, sorting is done on the combination of consonants and

vowel signs, in fonts, the consonants and vowels have graphical representation

rather than phonetic representation.