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Q150 (CISF/2019) Science & Technology › ICT, AI, Cybersecurity & Emerging Tech

For the use of Indian scripts for data entry, which encoding scheme is used on most of modern computer systems and smart phones?

Explanation

Unicode is the universal character encoding standard that provides a unique number for every character, regardless of the platform, program, or language. It is the foundation for representing Indian scripts (such as Devanagari, Bengali, Tamil, etc.) on modern computer systems, smartphones, and the internet. While India previously used ISCII (Indian Script Code for Information Interchange), modern technology has transitioned to Unicode (specifically UTF-8 and UTF-16) to ensure global compatibility.

  • ASCII and ISO/IEC 646 are limited 7-bit encoding schemes designed primarily for the English alphabet and basic symbols.
  • EBCDIC is an older 8-bit encoding used mainly on legacy IBM mainframe systems.

Unicode allows for the seamless exchange of multilingual data across different devices without corruption.

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