The hassles of upper-case lower case and spacing problems that happen when manyĪvailable non-Unicode Gurmukhi fonts are used.įonts are made in such a way that many typing issues become very easy: Sort (alphabetize) Gurmukhi text with ease.ĭata without having to worry about fonts.
Search documents and web pages in Gurmukhi. Naming: One can name files and folders in Gurmukhi and other scripts at the Use of Unicode makes the following possible: Thus,Īll other standards will become obsolete. The future, no major computer company will support any other font standard. In Punjabi, if the information uses Unicode standard. Thus it will be possible to search the internet The internet, only the information prepared with Unicode fonts will be properlyĪnalyzed by the search engines. Thus, any work that is done in Unicode fonts today, will not requireĪny significant modification in the future. The standard may improve with some additions and adjustments,īut there will be no drastic changes to disable the standard that is alreadyĭeveloped. International standard and will remain so for the future. Web-pages are made is not installed into the system just as English text isĪlways in English, even if the font in which it is made is missing. Program or web-browser on a computer that has support for Unicode, will alwaysīe viewed in the right script even if the font in which the documents or Or web-pages made with Unicode text, when viewed with an appropriate Half/Paireen characters placement of Sihaaree.įont-functions are actually implemented by font-engines. Unicode fonts, and the font-engines can provide the required functionality. Language so that the font-makers can provide built-in substitutions within the Devanagari reph is also implemented as a function (see below on howĬonsortium also provides information on the unique requirements of each However, those are implemented as functions (by use of Is no allocation for half characters or subjoined forms (paireen-characters), orįor conjoined forms. Of Indic scripts are allocated locations corresponding to Devanagari, but Script has been allocated its own block for characters. Implementation is done with use of Halant).
Transliteration between Indic scripts will be easy as code points forĬorresponding characters are well defined and because half characters, subjoinedįorms and conjoined characters are implemented as substitutions (this functional The Indian government and it is done in such a way that phonetic Implementation of Indic scripts by Unicode has been done in consultation with All otherįuture development regarding scripts will be based on Unicode.
Windows XP has full support for Indic scripts, including Gurmukhi. Sanskrit), Bengali (Bengali, Assamese), Gurmukhi (Punjabi), Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Has support for major Indic (Indian) scripts that include Devanagari (Hindi, Marathi, Is a 16 bit standard that allows use of 65535 characters in one font. Of the World and is adopted by all current major computer operating systems. The accepted international standard that includes support for all major scripts
In modern software products and standards.
Promote use of the Unicode Standard, which specifies the representation of text Unicode Consortium is a non-profit organization founded to develop, extend and This led to the formation of Unicode consortium. It soon became obvious, that there was a need for a unified one standard for all languages of the world.However, many different standards became prevalent. For many languages the limit of 255 characters was a hindrance, thus arose the need for other standards.It became possible to use other languages on the Macintosh computers, but theĬharacters had to be located at same 255 slots as English/Latin.Īlso became possible to use different languages on MS Widows platform, by the Of which 32 characters were control characters.Ĭomputers introduced around 1982 started using a variety of English/Latin fonts.
Personal computers used mostly English/Latin fonts with 255 characters each out World is dramatically changed for ever with these two developments. Use by common man started about 15 years ago.
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