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C-DIT releases free Malayalam software

Special Correspondent

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Centre for Development of Imaging Technology (C-DIT) has released the free software version of the official Malayalam language software it had developed for the Department of Official Language.

The software, which works on Linux platform, consists of six Malayalam fonts in Unicode and a special editor. It can be downloaded free of charge from the Web site, www.clickeralam.org.

A Windows version of the software is also available.

The software was developed under the joint auspices of the State Information Technology Mission and the Centre for Linguistic Computing Kerala — a joint venture of the C-DIT.

Free software can be used, copied, studied, modified and distributed. The free software movement is initiative by programmers collaborating across cyberspace.

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