After dillydallying for more than three years, the state government has finally decided to make Unicode fonts compulsory in Kannada software. It will be issuing an order to this effect by April 30.

Manjunatha R, 34, a resident of T Narasipur, and a lead designer serving in a firm in the city, has recently designed five new Kannada Unicode fonts with two styles. He has already designed a Kannada ...

Mysuru: Compared to other languages, Kannada has a lower number of fonts and not many people are involved in developing the new fonts. Love for Kannada language made this designer from Mysuru develop ...

“There is a need for a strong political will to implement this. States like Tamil Nadu are at least 15 years ahead of us on this issue,” said Jnanpeeth Dr Chandrashekhara Kambara. The writer was ...

Tulu, a common language spoken in parts of Karnataka and Kerala, has been added to the Unicode by the Unicode Consortium, the United States, to which many countries are members. Several proposals for ...

Waking up to the need to be relevant in the digital age, the Kannada Ganaka Parishat (KGP) has developed versions of the premier Kannada keyboard driver Nudi — for 64-bit word processing, using only ...