Coimbatore: While the Unicode font system is being widely used across several platforms to compute in Tamil, an 84-year-old Tamil scholar has raised issues with Sanskrit letters being used to ...

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 ...

DHARMAPURI: The founder of higopi.com, Gopalakrishnan also known as Thagadoor Gopi, died after suffering a cardiac arrest at his Hyderabad residence on Saturday. He was 42. He was the first software ...

Gopikrishnan, alias Thagadoor Gopi, the man who created a universal code or Unicode so that English could be transliterated to Tamil and other Indian language fonts, died of cardiac arrest in ...

CHENNAI: Kanithamizh Sangam honoured the editor of Tamil daily, Dinamalar R Krishnamurthy, for creating the widely used Krishnamurthy Keyboard and, Shreelipi fonts using the Tamil script despite ...

For the government staff in Vellore district, typing official documents in Tamil is all set to become hassle-free. The district administration has formally launched a software, Tamil word processor ...

“There is a need for a strong political will to implement this. States like Tamil Nadu are at least 15 years ahead of us on this issue,” said Jnanpeeth Dr Chandrashekhara Kambara. The writer was ...