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 script ...

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 ...

CHENNAI: The decades-long resistance to the imposition of Sanskrit on Tamil language and popular culture saw a sudden revival on Thursday with Dravidar Kazhagam (DK) president K Veeramani giving a ...

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 ...

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 ...

A teacher of a Government Primary School at Chinna Kalapet has developed a Tamil typing software with phonetic keyboard driver to assist users who are not familiar with the language in typing out ...

Gopikrishnan, alias Thagadoor Gopi, the man who created a universal code or Unicode so that English could be transliterated to Tamil and other Indian language fonts, died of cardiac arrest in ...

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 script ...