All of the major modern Indic scripts in which the official languages of India are written (as well as many of the unofficial ones) are located in the Basic Multilingual Plane, which means they can be accessed via a single 16-bit UTF-16 code point.
Perhaps I didn't understand your original question, "Is this 16-bit encoding?" If you are new to Unicode, you might want to visit www.unicode.org and peruse the FAQ and code charts. --Doug Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -----Original Message----- From: "V. M. Kumaraswamy" <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:59:55 To: <[email protected]> Cc: Jonathan Rosenne<[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; ekavi vmk<[email protected]> Subject: Re: 8 bits preference? How about for KANNADA Language of Karnataka State. What do KANNADA has ? What is available for KANNADA in UNICODE ? On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 3:53 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > **It certainly is for Tamil. > > --Doug > > Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T > ------------------------------ > *From: *"V. M. Kumaraswamy" <[email protected]> > *Sender: *[email protected] > *Date: *Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:26:44 -0700 > *To: *Jonathan Rosenne<[email protected]>; <[email protected] > > > *Cc: *<[email protected]> > *Subject: *Re: 8 bits preference? > > This is what Govt. of TAMILNADU, INDIA has mandated: > > In the report, the Committee recommended that Tamil Nadu Government migrate > from all legacy 8-bit encodings like TAB/TAM as well as other proprietary > encoding to 16-bit encoding. The Committee recommended Unicode as the main > 16-bit encoding to be used in all applications where support for Tamil is > available. > > *Is this 16-Bit encoding ? > > * > On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Jonathan Rosenne < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Because it is the most convenient byte size, considering that computers >> are binary. >> >> I did once, in 1963, work on a computer with a byte size of 15, but I >> don't think it was very convenient for textual data. We packed two 6 bit BCD >> characters in each byte. Before that I worked on a computer with a word size >> of 48 bits, and we packed eight 6 bit BCD characters in each word. Only >> slightly less inconvenient. And getting the text to include Hebrew and >> English required additional information, not directly encoded. >> >> Thank goodness we are where we are today with Unicode. >> >> Jony >> >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >> > Behalf Of [email protected] >> > Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 8:54 PM >> > To: [email protected] >> > Subject: 8 bits preference? >> > >> > Why are codes preferred in multiples of 8? >> > >> > Anbu >> >> >> >> >
