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: 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 ...

HYDERABAD: 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. The move was ...

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 ...

For the government staff in Vellore district, typing official documents in Tamil is all set to become hassle-free. The district administration has formally launched a software, Tamil word processor ...

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 ...