For the use of Indian scripts for data entry, which encoding scheme is used on most modern computer systems and smartphones?
– EBCDIC (Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code) is another character encoding used primarily on IBM mainframe systems. It is also limited and cannot widely represent the diverse characters of Indian scripts.
– ISO/IEC 646 is a standard based on ASCII. It also lacks the capacity for representing a wide range of international characters.
– Unicode is a universal character encoding standard that aims to represent every character from every writing system in the world, including all major Indian scripts like Devanagari, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, etc. Modern computer systems and smartphones widely use Unicode (e.g., UTF-8, UTF-16) to handle text in multiple languages.
Therefore, Unicode is the encoding scheme used on most modern computer systems and smartphones for the use of Indian scripts.
– Older standards like ASCII and EBCDIC have limited character sets.
– Unicode is a modern, comprehensive standard designed to support characters from all languages globally.