Balendu Sharma Dadhich, New Delhi based editor of Hindi news portal www.prabhasakshi.com and an experienced developer of people oriented software and services, has launched a free service to convert Junked Hindi Unicode text generally received through emails, into properly readable text. Named as 'Online Junked-Unicode Sanitizer' (Vikrit-Unicode Sanshodhak in Hindi), the web based service is available on his personal homepage www.balendu.com Indian language computer users are increasingly getting troubled due this tricky problem and have no solution in sight. People generally request the sender to re-send the email either in English or in Roman script. The new utility will help thousands of people who use Unicode Hindi in their emails.

Mr. Dadhich, who is also the developer of popular free Hindi word processor 'Madhyam' and web development solution 'WebSamarth', says, "Most people exchanging emails in non-English languages came across such distorted Unicode text, especially when they don't have support for the specific language available in their computer systems. Sometimes, even computers fully configured to support Unicode face this problem, probably due to a not-so-perfect implementation of UTF-8 encoding in the respective email servers. This utility enables one to make sense out of such distorted text."

More information and the service is available here:

http://www.balendu.com/sanshodhak/