Advancement of Indian Language computing

After the start of GIST Technology, then DOS/Unix based, hardware and software the next step was the introduction of ISM which stands for ISFOC Script Manager, where ISFOC stands for Indian Scripts FOnt Code. This software is a font package of all the Indian Scripts for usage under Windows/Linux enviornment. Apart from having a collection of aesthetic fonts in all the various Indian Scripts one can also take the advantage of various word processing and editing features which support Indian Language Scripts. Presently the following Indian Language Scripts are supported --- Assamese, Bengali, Devnagri (Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit), Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu. In the foreign languages the package supports Thai, Sinhalese, Nepalese. A seperate pack is available for Perso-arabic scripts - Arabic, Urdu, Sindhi and Persian.