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 i.

When Tamil computer experts were demanding the expansion of the Tamil Unicode to incorporate all the 247 letters of the language’s alphabets, Sharma’s demand smacks of a bid to sneak Sanskrit ...

It was Iravatham Mahadevan’s ‘Early Tamil Epigraphy’ that opened doors to Tamil-Brahmi, the earliest script for old Tamil. But it was only after the development of a Unicode font that the ...

Despite having Unicode membership, Tamil Nadu government shuns open standard Though the T.N. government has spent $200,000 in membership fees for the global text standard, it still does not use ...

The Unicode Consortium’s recent move to accept Tamil alphabets into Telugu Unicode block has sparked off a controversy, with many calling it an imposition of Tamil on Telugus.