As the almost exclusive use of variants derived from Southern forms of Brahmi script suggests, poetic imagery that alludes to writing seems to confirm that the technology was predominantly that of meridional India: letters were engraved into the surface of palm-leaves....
ISCII encoding strategy is used in Unicode in their encoding. Generally the characters of the Indian language derive from the ancient Brahmi script. Mostly all the characters resemble closely to each other in terms of phonetics. So, a certain number of common character sets was sufficient for cov...
Scripts are truly one of the most intriguing aspects of India’s linguistic diversity. According to thePeople’s Linguistic Survey of India, 66 different scripts are used. Most languages use scripts derived from the ancient Brahmi script, which is the oldest readable script of the subcontinent. T...
Computers use binary code which is made up of all “ones and zeroes”. But why? Why don’t PCs and smartphones work in the decimal system that we are all used to? The answer can be found in the technology as well as in the sheer elegance of the binary system. It is a lot simple...
Here is the list of scripts that DirectWrite supports in Windows 8 and after. Avestan Bamum Batak Brahmi Egyptian hieroglyphics Imperial Aramaic Inscriptional Pahlavi Inscriptional Parthian Javanese Kaithi Lisu (Fraser) Mandaic Meetei Mayek Old South Arabian Old Turkish (Orkhon) Samaritan Ta...
argued that as the Brahmi notation of the first nine whole numbers was autochthonous and free of any outside influence, the decimal place value system must have originated in India and was the product of Indian civilisation alone. In contrast, Lam and Ang (2004) argued that there is no earl...