UNICODE

Unicode Standards are widely being used by the Industry for the development of Multilingual Softwares. The basic Input for evolving the Unicode Standard for Indian scripts were taken from "Indian Script Code for Information Interchange-1988 (ISCII-1988)" document, whereas the present national standard is ISCII:1991 (ISCII- IS13194:1991). Some modifications were necessary to incorporate in the Unicode Standard for adequate representation of Indian Scripts. Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications & IT, is the voting member of the Unicode Consortium. Department of Information Technology finalized the proposed changes in the Unicode Standard in consultation with respective State Government, Indian IT Industry & Linguists. The proposed changes were published in TDIL Newsletter Vishwabharat@tdil issue 4 (Devanagri based languages Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Konkani & Sindhi), issue 5 (Gujarati, Malayalam,Telugu, Gurmukhi, Oriya), issue 6 (Bangla, Manipuri & Assamese), issue 7 (Tamil, Kannada, Urdu, Sindhi & Kashmiri). The proposal was submitted to Unicode Consortium. Unicode Technical Committee (UTC) has accepted some of the proposed changes for inclusion in the Unicode Standards. These changes have been incorporated in Unicode Standard 4.0. The summary of the proposed modification in UNICODE standard for Indian scripts and their status is presented here in the charts as their links are given below. more...