Oriya for TEX/L^ATEX

While TEXitself does not understand Unicode, the Omega project [38] is a proposal to make a Unicode-compliant version of TEX. The Omega project files are already integrated into many common distributions of TEX. Try ``man omega'' or look for Omega documentation on your system, e.g., in /usr/share/texmf/doc/omega/base/omega-manual.pdf. While I have not personally tried Omega, there is also a package, Oriya-Tex, available from any CTAN site [39]. It comes with its own Type 1 fonts, and allows one to use Oriya under plain TEXvia a pre-processor. The Oriya text is entered using a pseudo-phonetic transcription that is converted into appropriate character codes from the font by the pre-processor. For example, the input \orx rebati produces େରବତି, the name of our project, nicely typeset.