Published 2008 | Version v1
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Digital Encoding of South Asian Languages: A Contemporary Guide to Unicode and Fonts

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The World Wide Web and your computer can already display text in the scripts of most South Asian languages. What makes that possible is a system of digital encoding called Unicode. This article will explain how best to understand Unicode and its benefits by addressing a few primary questions. Following a general introduction, the article concludes with a discussion of specific issues involving Unicode and South Asian languages.

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Pue, A. Sean. "Digital Encoding of South Asian Languages: A Contemporary Guide to Unicode and Fonts." South Asia Pedagogy and Technology 1 (2008).

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