Hewan Amharic Software is a software company based in
EthiopiaEthiopia , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country situated in the Horn of Africa. Ethiopia is bordered by Eritrea to the north, Sudan to the west, Kenya to the south, Somalia to the east and Djibouti to the northeast. Its size is 1,100,000 km² with an...
. It markets a
word processorA word processor is a computer application used for the production of any sort of printable material....
that conforms to the
unicodeUnicode is a computing industry standard allowing computers to consistently represent and manipulate text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...
standard, enabling users to write with the Ge'ez syllabary.
Since the inception of computer technology several scholars and computer enthusiasts tried everything to apply computer technology in their country and in their language. At first the
ASCIIThe American Standard Code for Information Interchange is a character-encoding scheme based on the ordering of the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that use text...
standard was the bottleneck for most non-Latin-based languages and they created the extended ASCII with the eighth bit computing capability.
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Hewan Amharic Software is a software company based in
EthiopiaEthiopia , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country situated in the Horn of Africa. Ethiopia is bordered by Eritrea to the north, Sudan to the west, Kenya to the south, Somalia to the east and Djibouti to the northeast. Its size is 1,100,000 km² with an...
. It markets a
word processorA word processor is a computer application used for the production of any sort of printable material....
that conforms to the
unicodeUnicode is a computing industry standard allowing computers to consistently represent and manipulate text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...
standard, enabling users to write with the Ge'ez syllabary.
Since the inception of computer technology several scholars and computer enthusiasts tried everything to apply computer technology in their country and in their language. At first the
ASCIIThe American Standard Code for Information Interchange is a character-encoding scheme based on the ordering of the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that use text...
standard was the bottleneck for most non-Latin-based languages and they created the extended ASCII with the eighth bit computing capability. That allowed about 256 characters to be added to the language world. However still the 256-character set did not quench the trust of millions of computer users across the globe. Most Asian languages were using the double-byte character set. That solved some problems but it was a big mess. Still other languages were left outside without help.
AmharicAmharic is a Semitic language spoken in North Central Ethiopia by the Amhara. It is the second most-spoken Semitic language in the world, after Arabic, and the official working language of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. Thus, it has official status and is used nationwide...
, Tigrinya, and Ge'ez were the best examples where the world never cared about their existence. However scholars such as Dr. Adamu Walelign and other were working hard with a limited resource with outside help. They created Amharic fonts and use exited keyboard drivers and were able to print Amharic newspapers and flyers. Soon few Ethiopian software developers followed their footsteps and developed several Amharic software. It was a painful and exiting journey for both users and developers. One of the hardest things was not having a mutual agreed standard. Each developer were doing his work independently in closed doors with out sharing any thing every thing was disarrayed. People could not view or edit a document which was written by software A with software B. Everything was hard and frustrating.
All this frustration and pain goes away when the UNICODE standard born. Unicode the 16-bit computing with 65536 character representation is the savior of our world. Now almost all Amharic characters have their own representation. Now people can post forums, blog, send email and design a web site. Now you can buy an Amharic software which is UNICODE compliant there are several free software and also with fees.