After dillydallying for more than three years, the state government has finally decided to make Unicode fonts compulsory in Kannada software. It will be issuing an order to this effect by April 30.

In English, letters with accents (diacritics) are pretty rare. Since Midæval times, diacritics have apparently fallen into disfavor. These days, people would rather cooperate than coöperate and are no ...

In a major boost to the free software movement in the state, the school curriculum steering committee has decided to set school textbooks in universally-accessible Unicode format. THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: ...

Most readers will have at least some passing familiarity with the terms ‘Unicode’ and ‘UTF-8’, but what is really behind them? At their core they refer to character encoding schemes, also known as ...