Sikkimdak: A Multi-Lingual Message Server

 

Sikkimdak is a Multi-Lingual Message Server that has been deployed for Department of Information Technology and other user Departments under Govt. of Sikkim. Expert Software Consultants Ltd., New Delhi (Phone: 011-24642675) has developed Sikkimdak.

 

Overview

 

Sikkimdak Message Server is developed for exchanging electronic messages in Sikkim local languages, viz., Nepali, Bhutia, Lepcha, Hindi and English. In addition, a message can be composed by mixing text of any of these five languages in the same e-mail content simultaneously.

 

Sikkimdak is a message server through which a user can send/receive messages to/from other Sikkimdak user or to/from any other user of any other message server on the Internet in a uniform way. Sikkimdak user can send messages written in any mixture of above implemented Sikkim local languages to any user on the Internet. The recipient can view the e-mail through any standard browser like Internet Explorer.

 

Sikkimdak a Multi-lingual Messaging Server has following features:

 

• Sikkimdak provides complete user interface in any of the language (viz. Nepali, Bhutia, Lepcha, Hindi and English) giving extremely familiar look to the user.
• As an e-mail in Sikkimdak can be composed with a mixture of characters/sentences from any of the languages (viz. Nepali, Bhutia, Lepcha, Hindi, and English), simultaneously.
• Sikkimdak provides multiple keyboard options for users to choose from. A user can have the standard English keyboard, or INSCRIPT bilingual keyboard, or can choose to input as phonetic or typewriter keyboard. Further, a user can switch from one keyboard option to another at any point of his input.
• Sikkimdak provides search facility on its e-mails’ text as well as on Subject field irrespective of what script/scripts has/have been used in the message text and in the Subject field.