UNICODE CONSORTIUM

May 5, 2020

The Unicode Consortium has accepted the proposal to add two Tamil characters to the Telugu list for transcribing religious Tamil texts. The proposal was submitted so that Tamil texts can be transcribed into Telugu without worrying about equivalents.

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The Unicode Consortium (Unicode Inc.) is a non-profit organization based in California, United States. It was established in 1991.
Its primary purpose is to maintain and publish the Unicode Standard which was developed with the intention of replacing existing character encoding schemes which are limited in size and scope, and are incompatible with multilingual environments.
The Unicode Standard assigns code to characters from different languages in the world so that they can be understood and displayed across software platforms.
Unicode's success at unifying character sets has led to its widespread adoption in the internationalization and localization of software.

Source : The Hindu