Indiatimes

Stalin drops rupee symbol: The Tamil Nadu man who designed the sign and his DMK connection

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin replaced the rupee symbol with a Tamil script in the state budget amidst a controversy over 'Hindi imposition.' The rupee symbol was originally designed by Tamilian ...
Indiatimes

Meet the three who developed unicode font for Tamil-Brahmi

It was Iravatham Mahadevan’s ‘Early Tamil Epigraphy’ that opened doors to Tamil-Brahmi, the earliest script for old Tamil. But it was only after the development of a Unicode font that the script ...
The Hindu

V. Vedachalam to conduct a workshop on ‘How to read and write Tamil-Brahmi and Vatteluttu scripts’

A centrepiece of The Hindu Lit For Life, to be held on January 17 and 18 in Chennai, will be a workshop on ‘How to read and write Tamil-Brahmi and Vattelluttu scripts’. Conducted by award-winning and ...
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Stalin government replaces Rupee symbol with Tamil letter in state budget amid language row

NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu government, led by MK Stalin, on Thursday replaced the Rupee symbol "₹" with the Tamil script "ரூ" in the logo for the state's 2025-26 budget. This move comes amid the ongoing ...
The Hindu

Despite having Unicode membership, Tamil Nadu government shuns open standard

Though Tamil Nadu is one of only three government members of the Unicode Consortium that sets digital standards for scripts and emojis, the State government has largely stayed away from actually using ...