GUWAHATI: The Unicode working group in London has agreed that characters in Bengali and Assamese languages are similar.
In a meeting held in London experts from the group recommended that the title of the chart containing Assamese and Bengali characters in the Unicode Consortium should be "Bengali-Assamese" instead of "Bengali".
The working group also recommended to include “Assamese Characters Name” in the name list and to allot code for new and additional characters of Assamese which were earlier missing from the code chart.
Discussion also took place on allotting separate slot to Assamese script in the UN-based Unicode Consortium.
Representatives of Asam Sahitya Sabha and the state government were also present in the meeting.
