

Suitable guidelines have to be issued from the Govt of India in this regard to all the manufacturers.”īeluru Sudarshana explained that “we need to respect linguistic plurality of the country.
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The petition says “All the products (both software and device like SmartPhone/Tablet, Smart TVs, etc), manufactured by any IT Tool companies, whether Indian or Foreign, which target the Indian market shall be instructed to provide inbuilt rendering engines for Unicode and should be able to render any Indian language text without any hitches or glitches (All Scheduled and Non-Scheduled Languages) at interface level and also at user screen level. This news created a storm in the social media with global Kannada readers angrily thrashing Amazon for its “anti-Kannada attitude” and soon a campaign started with Beluru Sudarshana drafting a petition to the Minister for Information Technology, Government of India, demanding that all IT gadgets should have inbuilt Indian language tools. Without a doubt Kannada has very rich literature and need to be included in all digital possibilities.” I believe Amazon will soon support five Indian languages – Hindi, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam and Gujarati. Many Kannadigas were thrilled to see Kannada fonts on Kindle. They have sent an email saying, “We do not support Kannada”. Said Vasudhendra, “Amazon has deleted the Kindle version of my latest book.

In this context, it was really a reason to rejoice for Vasudhendra when his book was Kindle supported.
