![]() ![]() “Now every platform, including Facebook, Google, Android and iOS, provide their own versions of Kannada keyboard drivers, snatching away the premier position of Nudi. Pavanaja, Kannada language tool expert, said Nudi was a premier language asset earlier, but not anymore. Users said the Apple keyboard driver has not incorporated zero width joiner and zero width non-joiner for half letters in Kannada, among other issues. has released a keyboard driver for Kannada, it has a lot of issues, creating a demand for Nudi keyboard for Apple products as well,” Mr. The KGP is also for the first time developing a Nudi version for iOS platforms. Narasimhamurthy said the remaining ASCII fonts would be converted to Unicode, but in later versions. But Nudi 6.0, will only have 20 Unicode fonts, up from 10 from the earlier version. ![]() In all, the KGP has developed 40 fonts, of which only 10 are Unicode fonts. Beluru Sudarshana, trustee of Mitramadhyama which works for Kannada language tools, demanded that Nudi 6.0 must have all the Kannada fonts developed till date by the KGP in ASCII converted into Unicode and provided. However, the work on Unicode fonts will be incomplete even in Nudi 6.0. ![]() ![]() “The new version will be a 64-bit processor compatible and will have only Unicode fonts,” he said, adding that the spell-check function in Nudi 5.0 had only 50,000 words the latest version has 1.5 lakh words. Narasimhamurthy, secretary, KGP, said Nudi 6.0 - which is now in the testing phase- will plug all these gaps. Thus, many with 64-bit processor systems are unable to use Nudi. Microsoft has been using 64-bit processor from Windows 7 onwards released in 2009, making Nudi 5.0 outdated by four years when it was released. Released in 2013, it works only on 32-bit processors while the technology of the moment is 64-bit processors, and it still continues to use ASCII fonts though the Karnataka government adopted Unicode in 2013. Nudi 5.0, the present version, is outdated. Waking up to the need to be relevant in the digital age, the Kannada Ganaka Parishat (KGP) has developed versions of the premier Kannada keyboard driver Nudi - for 64-bit word processing, using only Unicode and for iOS platform. ![]()
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