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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

A decision taken by Unicode Consortium to include two Tamil letters in Telugu script has sparked a row, with Telugu lovers taking to Twitter to oppose the move. They said the two similar-sounding ...