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 ...

The usage of Kannada in online mode is set to become easy as the new version of Nudi Kannada software titled Nudi 5.0 which has 11 Kannada fonts conforming to the Unicode style is all set for release ...

BENGALURU: Trumpet it out, Kannada gets a new font, Bandipura, inspired by the elephant. Developed by Manjunatha R, an independent type designer and a conceptual photographer from T Narasipura in ...

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 ...

According to officials, the journey to this achievement began in 2001 when a member of the Unicode Consortium helped fix the Kannada script in Unicode and simultaneously advocated for the inclusion of ...

KOZHIKODE: The resemblance of Malayalam to the non-script language, Tulu, was back in focus when Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy released the Unicode version of the Tulu script last month. The script ...