Coimbatore: While the Unicode font system is being widely used across several platforms to compute in Tamil, an 84-year-old Tamil scholar has raised issues with Sanskrit letters being used to ...

CHENNAI: Strongly opposing the inclusion of 55 characters in Tamil Unicode, PMK leader S Ramadoss on Friday said the move following the recommendation of a Sanskrit scholar was aimed at distorting ...

The Unicode font system widely used across several platforms to type Tamil script may be misrepresenting the language. The system by listing Sanskrit letters as Tamil letters, is putting out an ...

A public interest litigation (PIL) in the Madras high Court has sought the removal of 55 special characters for the Tamil language in the Unicode Standard, saying that the move would lead to ...

Though Tamil Nadu is one of only three government members of the Unicode Consortium that sets digital standards for scripts and emojis, the State government has largely stayed away from actually using ...

The Unicode Consortium, a corporation which specifies the representation of text in software products, has accepted the proposal to add Tamil two characters to the Telugu characters for transcribing ...