Question

8. Explore and list the steps required to type in an Indian Language using UNICODE.

Answer 1

Answer:

Every language, including English, has multiple fonts. In Indian languages, the most popular ones now are Unicode fonts which are free. The number of fonts in Unicode is limited, i.e. the number of font faces are limited. Whereas in English you have many font faces (e.g. Times Roman, Arial, Vardana etc).

Unicode fonts have gained popularity since 2005 or 2006. The main advantage of Unicode font is that you need not have that font installed on your system to render the language characters.

Online publishers/sites find Unicode useful because all search engines can index Unicode content. These days search engines are indexing non-Unicode text, converting it to Unicode and displaying them in search results. At a point we were using non-Unicode fonts, with the help of TCS we converted all our content to Unicode