Indian Languages Requirements for String Search/comparison on Web

Abstract

The document formats and protocols that based on character data is mainly prepared for the web. These protocols and formats can be access as resources that contain the various text files that cover syntactic content and natural language content in some structural markup language. In order to process these types of data, it requires various string based operations such as searching, indexing, sorting, regular expressions etc. These documents inspect the text variations of different types and preferences of the user for string processing on the web. For this purpose, W3C has developed two documents Character Model: String Matching and searching that act as building blocks related two these problems on the web and defining rules for string manipulation i.e. string matching and searching on the web. These documents also focus on the different types of text variations in which same orthographic text uses different character sequences and encodings. The rules defined in these documents act as a reference for the authors, developers etc. for consistent string manipulation on the web. The paper covers different types of text variations seen in Indian languages by taking Hindi as initial language and it is important that these types of variations should reflect in these documents for proper and consistent Indian languages string manipulations on the web.