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Thanks for the appreciation. Yes, I was the team leader in development of the Gurmukhi-Shahmukhi-English dictionary. We have now enhanced the speed of the online dictionary. Regarding offline version, there are certain issues involved due which it is delayed. Your suggestion regarding adding new words to the dictionary is good and incidentally we are also doing the same for the new version. Actually, we are now enhancing the dictionary to make a tool tip dictionary, which will display the meaning of any Punjabi word in English if we place the mouse on it. You are most welcome to send me your suggestions in future too.

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Thanks for your appreciation. We are glad to know that you find our resources useful and are regularly using them. Regarding the issues in the online dictionary: 1) We have recently shifted the dictionary and the speed has slightly improved. To improve it further we have to go for SQL Server DB which is fast than MS Access or we can modify existing code to use Memory (RAM) based Data sets. We are looking at those options. 2) The Copy/paste issue is in Mozila not with IE and we are working on it. The lack of linguistic resources for Punjabi is a serious issue but unfortunately no conceret steps are being taken in that direction. As an example, we have hundreds of scholars doing PhD in Punjabi but none of them is related to development of these resources. To promote and spread Punjabi language, according to me there is an urgent need to develop: 1. Comprehensive Punjabi-Punjabi, Punjabi-English & reverse, Punjabi-Hindi & reverse, Gurmukhi-Shahmukhi & reverse dictionaries, with sample sentences for each meaning. 2. Punjabi thesaurus 3. Collection of all Punjabi idioms and phrases with meanings in Punjabi and English along with sample sentences. 4. Technical dictionaries for the latest terminolgies being used espcially in Information Technology field. 5. Collection of Punjabi words whose usage is decreasing or words used in ilder text along with their meanings.

This is the link to my interview on Sikh Channel regarding Unicode, Punjabi computing, technical development of Punjabi etc. Please watch and give your comments.