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 >> >> >> >> >
