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Roman Punjabi to Gurmukhi
Transliteration Utility
Punjabi is now being written in Roman script too,
particularly by those not familiar with Punjabi keyboard
and those typing the Punjabi text messages on mobile
phones. A very powerful transliteration utility for
transliterating Punjabi text written in Roman script to
Gurmukhi script has been provided in Akhar. As there is
no uniformity of writing the Punjabi text in Roman
script, the same word can be written in different ways
by different users. Additionally, same spellings can be
used to represent different words. The utility uses
statistical analysis and knowledge base of rules to
handle these cases. The complexity of the process makes
it impossible to correctly transliterate every Roman
script word to equivalent word in Gurmukhi script. On
the average a transliteration accuracy of more than 95%
has been achieved.
Application
- Type Punjabi in Roman script using the QWERTY
keyboard and convert the text to Gurmukhi . (Useful
for persons uncomfortable with typing in Punjabi)
- Convert the existing Punjabi websites/text from
Roman to Gurmukhi. (Make the text more readable)
- Transliterate names and addresses in databases
such as telephone directory, examination records,
land records etc. from Roman to Gurmukhi. (Useful
for localisation)
Gurmukhi to Devnagri
Transliteration Utility
A transliteration utility for transliterating Punjabi
text from Gurmukhi script to Devanagri script has been
provided in Akhar. The text can be converted to Chankya
or Kruti Dev fonts. There is also a provision for
transliterating the text to Devanagri in ISCII or
Unicode coding schemes.
A transliteration utility for converting Punjabi text
written in Gurmukhi to Roman script has been
incorporated in Akhar. The utility has been specificall
developed for users familiar with Punjabi language but
who cannot fluently read the Gurmukhi script. The
utility can be effictively used in converting Punjabi
texts typed in one of the popular Gurmukhi font into a
form suitable for display in Roman scripts.
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