The Ghost of ASCII Past
In Indian Language Computing
Indian language computing has evolved from ASCII-based font encoding to Unicode standardization. This article explains how text was represented in Indian languages before Unicode, the problems with ASCII-based fonts, and why Unicode became necessary. It covers various input methods developed for typing Indian languages and demonstrates how Unicode solved the compatibility issues between different systems.
Table of Contents What is Unicode? Some Hindi (Devanagari) Unicode Characters Unicode is more than just Codepoints!
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