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.

What’s new is the grand unification into a single character set embracing all characters at once. In other words, Unicode would do away with character set variations across systems and fonts. In fact, ...

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

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 ...

The Unicode font system widely used across several platforms to type Tamil script may be misrepresenting the language. The system by listing Sanskrit letters as Tamil letters, is putting out an ...

How to easily write text backwards (right to left) in a web page or in a forum without having to think about the order of the letters? There is a relatively surprising solution, which involves the use ...

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 ...

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 ...