That's nine languages spoken as a first language by 1.3 billion in India.
Bitstream, which makes the Bolt browser, claims this is a first.
It says its cloud computing browsing platform now supports the following Indic languages:
Hindi (India’s official language)
Bengali
Gurumukhi
Telugu
Tamil
Kannada
Gujarati
Malayalam
Oriya
“Interacting with Indic languages presents unique challenges on mobile devices,” said Lokesh Joshi, director of research and development at Bitstream India.
“Indic characters are not independent from one another the way characters are in Latin alphabets. Each letter’s size and shape is determined by the characters that surround it, making it a very complex language to work with in a mobile context.
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"Bitstream’s heritage is in font technologies, and we have perfected the ability to render Indic fonts on consumer electronics."
