Section 1 · Code Points
One code point, then thirty years
What a character actually is.
Everything in this section
- 01One code point, and then thirty years of arguing about what to drawAssigning a character a number is the easy half; agreeing what shape it takes in every context is the part that took decades.
- 02Languages in the Eighth Schedule, written in a handful of scriptsThe constitutional list of languages maps onto far fewer writing systems, which is what made a shared table thinkable.
- 03Three rows of the Devanagari block, sixteen to a rowThe block's layout is a design decision with consequences for sorting, input and every font built since.