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Guest Editors' Introduction: Asian Language Processing: History and Perspectives
- IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
- IEEE Computer Society
- Volume 31, Number 1, January-March 2009
- pp. 4-7
- Article
- Additional Information
This special issue focuses on Asian language processing in India, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. Specifically, it discusses historical background of specific writing systems; script structure and major issues relevant to text processing; important development stages in type-printing and the typewriter era; milestones marked by the design of character code standards for computing; and issues involved in designing a mechanism for input and display interfaces in Asian language computing.