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Harish Kotian
Doc: LITD (3623)
IS 16333 (Part 3)
भारतीय मानक-मसौदा
मोबाइल फोन हैंडसेट
भाग 3 मोबाइल फोन के लिए भारतीय भाषा की सुविधा
Draft Indian Standard
MOBILE PHONE HANDSETS
PART 3 – Indian Language Support for Mobile Phones – Specific Requirements
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Information and Telecommunication Sectional Committee, LITD 13
FOREWORD
This Indian standard(part 3)was adopted by Bureau of Indian standards, after
the draft finalized by Information and Telecommunication Sectional Committee,
LITD 13 had been approved by Electronics and Information Technology Division
Council.
Request for this standard was received from Department of Electronics and
Information Technology (DeitY).The need was felt that India being a
multilingual country where Govt. or other such communications are broadcast for
all or select citizens. The communications should be received by the citizen
in English, Hindi and all the 22Indian official language.
Similarly the citizen should be able to use the features of the mobile
technology by being able to create a message at least in any one of the Indian
official language of its choice. The standard is set to use the strength of
mobile penetration in the country for transmitting the text message to the
citizens particularly in hours of disaster management.The other published
standard in the series are:
Part1 Safety Requirements
The standard on Performance requirements(Part 2) in the series is under
consideration.
For the purpose of deciding whether a particular requirement of this standard
is complied with, the final value, observed or calculated, expressing the
result of a test or analysis, shall be rounded off in accordance with IS 2 :
1960 ‘Rules for rounding off numerical values (revised)’. The number of
significant places retained in the rounded off value should be the same as that
of the specified value in this standard.
IS 16333 (Part 3) :2015
Draft Indian Standard
MOBILE PHONE HANDSETS
PART 3 – Indian Language Support for Mobile Phones – Specific Requirements
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1. SCOPE
This standard (Part 3) defines the requirements for mobile handset for
inputting of text in English, Hindi and at least one additional Indian official
language along with facility of Message readability in the phones for all 22
Indian official languages and script supporting these languages.
2 REFERENCES
The standard mentioned below contain provisions, which through reference in
this text constitute provisions of this standard. At the time of publication,
the editions indicated were valid. All standards are subject to revision, and
parties to agreement based on this standard are encouraged to investigate the
possibility of applying the most recent editions of the standards listed as
follows:
IS 16333(Part 1) Mobile phones- Safety Requirements.
IS 16350 Enhanced Inscript Keyboard Layout (under print).
3 TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
For the purpose of this standard, the following definitions shall apply in
addition to the definitions as given/referred in IS 16333 (Part 1).
3.1 Feature Phone — a feature phone is a class of mobile phone.
The term is typically used as a version of mobile phone
retronym<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retronym> (a retronym is a new
name<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neologism> for something that differentiates
the original from a more recent form or version) to describe low-end mobile
phones which are limited in capabilities in contrast to a modern
smartphone<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone>. Feature phones typically
provide voice calling and text messaging functionality, in addition to basic
multimedia<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia> and
internet<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet> capabilities, and other
services offered by the user's wireless service provide.
3.2 Indian Official Languages— The Constitution of India designates a
bilingual approach for official
language<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_language> of the Government of
India<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India> employing usage of
Hindi<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Hindi> written in the
Devanagari<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devanagari> script, as well as
English<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language>.
Hindi<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Hindi> and
English<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language> find everyday use for
important official purposes such as parliamentary proceedings, judiciary,
communications between the Central Government and a State Government. States
within India have the liberty and powers to specify their own official
language(s) through legislation and presently there are 22 Indian official
languages namely Assamese, English, Hindi, Punjabi, Nepali, Bengali, Odia,
Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Gujarati, Marathi, Urdu etc. as given in the
Eighth schedule of Indian constitution.
3.3 Third Indian Language — any of the officially recognized Indian
language except English and Hindi.
4 REQUIREMENTS
The mobile phone shall have inbuilt capability to support the Indian official
languages. For this purpose:
4.1 The feature phone shall have facility for inputting of text in
English, Hindi and at least one additional Indian official language.The third
language that is to be supported by mobile phones shall be decided by phone
manufacturers/supplier; who can decide it based on market demands.
4.2 Message readability in the phones shall be provided for all 22 Indian
official languages and script supporting these languages.
5 TESTS
5.1 The requirement of inputting of text given under 4.1 may be verified by
inputting of all the characters (as per the requirement) as per “IS 16350
Enhanced Inscript Keyboard Layout (under print)” in English, Hindi and the
additional (third) Indian official language supported by the mobile phone as
decided by phone manufacturers/supplier.
5.2 The requirement of message readability as given under 4.2 may be
verified by sending a message in all the 22 Indian official languages from some
other device by inputting text containing all the characters (as per the
requirement) as per “IS 16350 Enhanced Inscript Keyboard Layout (under print)”.
6 MARKING
Each mobile phone handset shall be packed with an instruction manual to furnish
the following information in addition to the information given at clause 5.1 of
IS 16333 (Part 1)
6.1 The Indian official language that the mobile is capable of to send text in.
6.2 BIS Certification Marking
The mobile phone handset may also be marked with the Standard Mark. The use of
the Standard Mark is governed by the provisions of the Bureau of Indian
Standards Act, 1986 and the Rules and Regulations made there under. The details
of conditions under which a license for the use of the Standard Mark may be
granted to the manufacturers or producers may be obtained from the Bureau of
Indian Standards.
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