🛠️ Resources
Useful resources and tools for studying Odia language, literature, and culture
⌨️ Odia Unicode Keyboard
Keyboard is of paramount importance for working with computers. ISCII encoding and INSCRIPT keyboard layout has been developed by C-DAC for the standardisation of Indian language computing.
🔤 Odia Romanization
Difficulties are faced with correct pronunciation of Odia words written with Roman alphabet. Several methods have been developed to overcome this difficulty and the use of diacritic marks is one of these.
🔄 Font Converters
deisciify
[Runs on Linux]
Text files with correct ISCII encoding can be converted to Unicode with this program.
convert
[Runs on Linux]
PageMaker files composed with GIST can be converted to Unicode with this program after exporting the contents as text.
correction
[Runs on Linux]
Problems with interchanging of ba/wa and ja/ya are face often when converting 8bit text to Unicode. This program corrects such mistakes.
📊 Corpus Tools
Building and analysing word corpora form an important part of linguistic studies. This can be done effectively through computer programs these days.
odisort
Selecting single instances of the words with multiple occurrence and counting their frequencies can be done in an automated manner with the odisort program.
🌐 Websites Hosting Odia Material
Useful Websites of Associates
Arvind Gupta
↗It hosts all Srujanika' publications along with an extensive collection of material on education and science.
Eklavya
↗Hosts many interesting books and magazines relating to education and science, mainly in Hindi and English. Very useful for children's literature.
For more resources for Odia Language Computing
💾 Utility Programs Download
deisciify, convert, correction, odisort
These four programs are best run from a single directory as these have common dependencies. These can be downloaded together along with instructions for use here.
🔗 View Original Pages
Visit the original pages for more resources and services.