Malayalam Language -- Part 6

Unicode

Unicode provides a unique number for every character, no matter what the platform, no matter what the program, no matter what the language. It is fully compatible with the International Standard ISO/IEC 10646-1;1993 and contains all the same characters and encoding points as ISO/IEC 10646. Unicode provides a consistent way of encoding multilingual plain text and brings order to chaotic state of affairs that has made it difficult to exchange text files internationally.

Unicode has been hailed by many in the computing communities as an ideal solution to the problems of multiplatform internationalization. It is destined to replace ASCII and other single and multibyte character sets currently in existence. Majority of the software developers of the world over have declared conformance to Unicode. More and more applications are becoming Unicode compliant. It is expected that Unicode will become the
de-facto standard in the multilingual word, especially with the spread of Internet. Visit http://www.unicode.org for more details of Unicode.