L2/01-221

 

INFITT Liaison Report

 

• Work on the revised Tamil block description is proceeding (there should be something to give to the Editorial committee by the next UTC meeting).
• Heavy debate continues about the "visual encoding" comments that would be appropriate.
• There is some concern with members in Singapore, Malaysia, and the US about some efforts in Tamilnadu about a Tamil syllabic encoding that several scholars are embracing (this syllabic encoding is similar but not identical to the 380-codepoint syllabic proposal that was forwarded by Dr. Vikas at UTC85.
• Tamil Internet 2001, a conference being held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on August 26-28, is expected to showcase a large number of Tamil Unicode technologies -- it is hoped that people interested in Unicode will consider attending this or future conferences.

 

 

May 21, 2001

Michael Kaplan