Indic scripts form the most diversified and complicated script group in the world, and are the most difficult to handle with computers. Unicode Standard is a 16-bit storage encoding standard, which is being used internationally by the Industry for the development of Multilingual Software. Department of Electronics and Information Technology (TDIL Div.) is the voting member of the Unicode Consortium to ensure the adequate representation of Indic scripts in the Unicode Standard. Department of Information Technology identified the required changes in the then Unicode Standard 3.0 for representation of Indian languages in the Unicode Standard. All the required changes have been accepted and incorporated in Unicode Standard version 5.1.

Recently, Sixty five characters have been recommended for inclusion in the Unicode Standard for representation of Vedic Sanskrit. Recently, Government of Manipur has been recommended for encoding for representation of Manipuri language in Meetei Mayek script. Similarly, ten characters have been recommended for encoding in the Devanagari block of the Unicode Standard for representation of Kashmiri in Devanagari script. With the encoding of characters for Kashmiri representation, the task of representation of all the 22 constitutionally recognized Indian languages in Unicode Standard is completed.

Current improvements in the implementation of Indian scripts based on the Unicode architecture have made the Indian languages available to all over the world. Further Information can be obtained from http://www.unicode.org.