[smc-discuss] ചില്ലക്ഷരങ്ങളുടെ രാഷ്ട്രീയം

[കെവി & സിജി]

2011/1/21 Jayadevan Raja <jayadevanraja at gmail.com>

> Tamil Nadu government did that on Flimsy grounds. Just like the central
> government, Tamil Nadu government too piggybacked on ASCII. They didn't make
> it from scratch. And they too followed the cathedral-style development (c.f.
> "The Cathedral and the Bazaar").
>

Tamil Nadu gov did not go for it for sake of just opposing ISCII. They have
developed the (at that time all world languages used 7/8 bit codepages,
there was no 16/32 bit) codepage for Tamil which suits the Tamil data
handling very smartly. It was well researched by the Tamil community, not
only from Tamil Nadu, but from Sri-lanka, Malaysia, Hongkong, etc. Tamil
Nadu gov was just one of the party in that consortium and they have the
power to implement it in Tamil Nadu state. All other Tamil communities
around world also have taken this as their standard.



> The challenges faced while replacing an existing Goliath (symbolising ANSI
> or the Unicode consortium, which follows the cathedral style) will be very
> high for our new David (Symbolising a free standard by a bazaar-style,
> socially committed team). But the benefits will be really high - a neater
> and cleaner standard.
>

yes, really.

Kevin
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