[Wikimediaindia-l] Indic languages & unicode issues.

Hari Prasad Nadig hpnadig at gmail.com
Sun Dec 26 14:22:11 UTC 2010


On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 7:43 PM, CherianTinu Abraham
<tinucherian at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
> Happened to see Gerard's blog post on issues with Malayalam Wikipedia
> & Unicode upgrade to 5.1
> http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2010/12/malayalam-enigma.html While
> traffic to websites ( yes, including Wikipedia ) is primary driven by search
> traffic ,apparently this had a negative effect as shown by WM stats. As he
> explains, the problem is there needs to be canonical equivalence between the
> old and new Unicode .. This is a larger issue and it is time that the
> foundation has a stake on the Unicode consortium ( and search engines too ?
> ;)  )..
>



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