----- Original Message -----
From: "Magda Danish (Unicode)" <v-magdad@microsoft.com>
To: "Unicode List" <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 10:58 AM
Subject: FW: Search of a malayalm database
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rahul Jha [mailto:RahulJ@planetasia.com]
> Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2001 4:54 AM
> To: info@unicode.org
> Subject: Query regarding Unicode
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>
> Respected sir / mada,.
> I have a problem regarding unicode.
> 1. We have a malayalam database .i guess malayalam (indian language) is
> covered in unicode.
> 2. I would like to know how to use a search engine ( that also support
> unicode)
> to search the malayam database.
> can u help me out of this situation.
> Also if possible help me regarding which search engine is best to
> use.
> Hoping to get a positive reply.
> Thanks and regards.
>
> (Rahul Jha)
>
Ashwani Mujoo has done work along these lines.
http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/research/mtech1998/9811101.html
Quoting from the page at the link above:
"... In this thesis, a web based Search Engine for Indian Languages has been
implemented. This software allows full-text indexing and searching of a
database of UTF-8 documents written in any Brahmi-based Indian Language. The
Search engine ..."
The ZIPPED thesis is available at the link above.
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
James Kass.
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