Prashant Ahlawat

Akshara: Script-Aware, Grapheme-Cluster-Correct Array Operations for Indic Text

2026 · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

pandas, Polars, and Apache Arrow represent string columns as sequences of Unicode codepoints. For the nine Brahmic abugida scripts (Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Odia, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam), a single user-perceived unit — an akshara, …