With multi-byte, variable-width character strings, the usual functions like strlen fall apart. Unicode’s combining characters also causes problems when it comes to comparison and collation of text.

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 ...

Displaying Unicode in Notepad The quickest way to add Unicode text to a Notepad document is to paste it there.

The Unicode standard, meanwhile, is itself constantly being revised and extended. At the same time, Windows users are getting built-in language and Unicode support that in some respects is light-years ...

The Unicode font package includes seven iterations of the font, including a bold, regular, thin, light version of the font with italics. The font's designer, Mohibubur Rahman Rajon, said, “There is a ...

The font will help ease access to the internet for Bangla language users Marking International Mother's Language Day, United Nations Development Programme has launched the Unicode version, with ...