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 > > > >
