Unicode, Assamese

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The Unicode Consortium is building up a system of encoding all languages, past and present, in their own scripts. The Assamese script is encoded as part of the Bengali script [1]. Microsoft envisages different language systems within this script as a provision for the future [2].

The Unicode is still under development, but it has been accepted as the industry standard, with the support of companies like Microsoft, Adobe; most modern web browsers like Internet Explorer and Firebird; most operating systems like those from Microsoft, Apple and the Linux operating system. See [3] for more details.

There is a proposal to include the Tai-Ahom script in Plane 1 [4], [5].

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Assamese letters not present in Unicode

At present, there are two letters in the Assamese alphabet that are not part of the this chart: hasanta-ta (khanda-ta), and the khya. These two letters are conjugates in Bengali. A proposal was possibly made to include them [6]. It seems only the hasanta-ta is being considered for acceptance[7] and not the khya. But it hasn't been rejected either [8]. The proposal probably originated at the IIT, Guwahati [9].

khya has a different sorting order in Assamese and Bengali on account of it being a different letter. But that is not sufficient to give it a different code point in the Unicode chart [10] [11].

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