PunjabiKosh App Released
Posted on 31. Mar, 2010 by Kulpreet Chilana in Blog
The Ravi Foundation is proud to announce it’s first fundraising product—PunjabiKosh. PunjabiKosh is a full-featured, mobile Punjabi-
English and English-Punjabi Dictionary. It is the first ever Punjabi-English Dictionary for the iPhone/iPod touch platform and is a tool that you can use to easily and quickly look up words in a comprehensive dictionary, ideal for learning the meanings of old song, increasing your Punjabi vocabulary, and learning new and obscure words.
100% of the profits made from the App Store will directly be donated to fund our first project with The Association for the Welfare of the Handicapped and we’ll be periodically posting updates on how much the app has generated. The introductory price is $6.99 so get it while it’s new!
The app provides for a clean, intuitive and easy-to-use interface that’s both attractive and clean. Features include:
- 30,000+ Word Dictionary
- Includes Common Punjabi Phrases and Idioms
- Full Gurmukhi Unicode Native-Keyboard
- English & Punjabi Search Capabilities
- Reverse-Definition English Search
- Vowel Fuzzy-Search
- Gurmukhi, Shahmukhi & English Transliteration
- Part-of-Speech
Don’t miss out on this opportunity to really master your mother-tongue-the easy way!
We are currently working on:
- Shahmukhi Search
- Bookmarks & Wordlists
- Indexed Scrolling
- History
Out of the box, the iPhone does not fully support the Gurmukhi unicode font. As such, there are certain rendering issues that we are currently in the process of requesting Apple to resolve. Until these are resolved words such as ‘ਪਿੰਡ’ will read as ‘ਪੰਿਡ’. For a full list of rendering issues and possible workarounds feel free to contact us. These workarounds might require you to modify your device. Regardless, feel free to contact us with any concerns.
UPDATE: We have now implemented a workaround as of version 1.1 that fixes the Gurmukhi rendering issues. Don’t forget that under the unicode standard the ’sihaare’ character comes after the consonant. (i.e. ਪ + ਿ = ਪਿ)
Hey guys, the app looks great
Couple of suggestions: Having an option to hide the keyboard after typing would be great, like putting a done button above the keyboard. At the moment it obscures some of the search results. Also, maybe having the keyboard structured in the standard Mac OS / Windows Gurmukhi layout would be good as an option, as it would be far more familiar for many users.
App is great though! Keep it coming with more – maybe an email or contact management app with Punjabi text entry