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I am working on a Java application primarily on English but also hope to support Indian languages like Hindi, Telugu and Gujarati. I am wondering what can be a good strategy for this.
I have seen I18N projects in Latin script based languages but Hindi uses Devanagri script so it’s a little more complicated.
Has anyone done anything close to this ?
To be honest, the scripts and languages you mentioned are not necessary very common in programming. Since you didn’t mention whether it will be desktop or web application, it will be quite hard to give you any advice apart from use latest Java (7) and ICU (49.1 or even 50M2) version.
That’s because this releases support newer version of the Unicode Standard, and it will play a role here.
BTW. You might want to know, that the Unicode Consortium is working on better support for Indian scripts. Therefore developing applications with this languages in mind will be easier in the future, for now you will probably struggle a bit.