Telugu has become an official full member of the US-based Unicode Consortium, paving the way for standardized, user-friendly fonts and scripts for the language on computers.
Telugu is the first Indian language to join the consortium as a full permanent member although two other Indian languages — Hindi and Tamil — are already institutional members, said Andra Pradesh Minister for Information Technology and Communications Ponnala Lakshmaiah.
Lakshmaiah told PTI here that the government of Andhra Pradesh has joined Unicode as its tenth member, along with world leaders in IT such as Adobe Systems, Apple Inc, Microsoft Corporation, Oracle America, Google Inc, IBM Corporation and SAP AG.
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