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Karunanidhi opposes encoding of Tamil alphabets
Saturday November 06, 2010 07:29:46 PM,
IANS
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Chennai: The Tamil Nadu
government has decided to constitute a panel to deliberate on the
issues involved in encoding Tamil alphabets in unicode standard
and has requested the central government to advise the Unicode
Consortium to defer its earlier recommendation.
In a letter to Union Minister for Communications and Information
Technology A. Raja, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi
Saturday said: "The Tamil Nadu government would like to constitute
a high level committee to hold wider consultations and make
recommendations on the proposal."
The copy of the letter released to the media here said: "The
government of Tamil Nadu has come to know that the government of
India (department of information technology) has sent a
communication to the Unicode Consortium, proposing to encode
Indian heritage scripts (Vedic, Sanskrit and Grantha) in the
unicode standard, so that ancient knowledge could be represented
on electronic media, computers and internet."
The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit organization devoted to
developing, maintaining, and promoting software
internationalization standards and data. The unicode standard is a
character coding system designed to support the worldwide
interchange, processing, and display of the written texts in
different scripts.
According to Karunanidhi, the proposal has raised considerable
concern among a cross-section of the Tamil community.
"They have indicated that sufficient consultations have not taken
place with eminent Tamil language scholars, before submitting the
proposal," the letter said.
Since the proposal has gone from government of India to the
Unicode Consortium, it may be desirable for the minister to advise
Unicode Consortium, to defer consideration of this proposal,
pending wider and in-depth considerations among various scholars
and stakeholders.
"I would appreciate if I am kept informed of the developments in
this matter," the chief minister said.
Raja is a senior member of the DMK party headed by Karunanidhi.
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