Tamil in Android

Displaying tamil characters in android can be easily achieved by using TSCII (Tamil Standard Code for Information Interchange) fonts. TSCII is an extended ASCII encoding standard. Unlike ASCII which uses 7 bits for encoding, TSCII makes use of all the 8 bits in a byte. The first 128 bytes remains the same as that of ASCII. The tamil vowels and consonants along with the common prefixes, suffixes and other special characters fill up the rest of the 128 bytes.

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