An order directing setting up of the committee, was issued by the chief minister M Karunanidhi here.
An official release said that the appointed members including noted poet Vairamuthu and Vice Chancellor of Tamil University, Tanjavur among others would hold wider consultations and make recommendations to the state government, which would then convey its stance to the Centre.
The Centre sent a communication to the Unicode Consortium, proposing to encode Indian heritage (Vedic, Sanskrit and Grantha) in the unicode standard, so that ancient knowledge could be represented on electronic media, computers and internet.
The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit organization involved in developing, maintaining, and promoting software internationalisation standards and data.
Tamil Nadu Government had already written a letter to the Centre that the proposal has raised considerable concern among a cross-section of the Tamil community. The letter also stated that Tamil community has indicated that sufficient consultations have not taken place with eminent Tamil language scholars, before submitting the proposal.
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Tamil language is one of the oldest language in use in the world. It is very rich in literature, poetry, poems, stories, and many other works. Many foreign scholars learned this language fully when they happened to listen about it. It is still growing with new words while it's alphabets remain the same from the start of the printing era. Before the Tamil alphabets have changed from time to time.
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