Bharati Message Server is developed for exchanging electronic messages in all the eleven scripts of Indian languages, viz., Assamese, Bangala, Dev Nagari, Gujarati, Gurumukhi, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, and English. In addition, a message can be composed that have letters of any of the eleven Indic scripts in the same text. Bharati presumes that the user is equipped with an INSCRIPT keyboard of that specific script in which he wants to send e-mails.

Bharati can be configured to give the users the complete computer interface environment in any specific Indic script, and nothing else. To maintain this uniform Internet connectivity Bharati e-mail address field of the message has to be in English, as messages flow on the Internet based on “address field” written in English (ASCII standard), but the “subject field” of a message can also be in Indic scripts.

Bharati provides search facilities on its e-mails’ text irrespective of its what script/scripts is used in the message. As UNICODE encoding scheme provide search order intrinsically    More detail...