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… ...

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.

Even though the introduction of Unicode technically solved this problem, you can still encounter situations in which some or all of your Unicode characters will not display properly in Java programs.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Myanmar hopes to complete its migration from its use of Zawgyi font to the adoption of a unified system of fonts that conform to the international standard called Unicode.

So this note will focus on 3 methods that make font changes visible to others; that is, change the font or use Unicode characters.

After dillydallying for more than three years, the state government has finally decided to make Unicode fonts compulsory in Kannada software.