A framework for retrieving information by using the local language on internet protocol television

The existing Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) uses non-Unicode characters, hence the characters from many regional languages are not displayed correctly. We present a new localization framework with Unicode characters for IPTV. Here, we concentrated mainly on Online News Reading using IPTV, but this is extendable for other purposes. The language we focused was “Sinhala” which is used by most of the Sri Lankans. With simple modifications in the server, the set of tools can be further extended to other Unicode languages. We convert all the Unicode characters into images dynamically in the server side and sends to the client IPTV with other graphical content. This provides clear, readable, and correct textual news dynamically without unknown and ambiguous character sequences.