Tamil Information Interchange Coding Systems

Tamil Information Interchange Coding Systems

TSCII (Tamil Script Code for Information Interchange)

Computers are handle data and information as binary system. Every data should be converted into binary while it is feed into a computer system. You learnt about all these things in the first unit of this text book. Computers use ASCII encoding system to handle data and information. The ASCII encoding system is applicable only for handling English language. Therefore, TSCII (Tamil Script Code for Information Interchange) is the first coding system to handle our Tamil language in an analysis of an encoding scheme that is easily handled in electronic devices, including non-English computers. This encoding scheme was registered in IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) unit of ICANN.

ISCII (Indian Script Code for Information Interchange)

This is one of the encoding schemes specially designed for Indian languages including Tamil. It was unified with Unicode.

Unicode:

Unicode is an encoding system, designed to handle various world languages, including Tamil. Its first version 1.0.0 was introduced on October 1991. While introduction of this scheme, can be able to handle nearly 23 languages including Tamil. Among the various encoding scheme, Unicode is the suitable to handle Tamil.