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Shabdaratna was released with an advanced version called Winkey and another editing software called Surabhi was also released. These were joined by more advanced software like Srilipi and Akruti which were Windows compatible. They started the era where computers started to replace typewriters and typesettings for Kannada publications. Shabdaratna, Venus, Prakashak, and Sediyapu were some of the Kannada editing software that were developed in those days. In those days, the Kannada keyboard was non-existent and existing English keyboard was used to enter Kannada characters. In the mid-1980s, software development in Kannada was started mainly to meet the needs of desktop publishing in Kannada. Kannada also entered the Wikipedia world when Kannada Wikipedia was started in September 2004. Kannada is the official language of the state of Karnataka in India whose capital city of Bangalore is known as the Silicon Valley of India. The Kannada language has come a long way in the computing field starting from initial software related to desktop publishing to portals and internet applications in the current age.
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