Guwahati: The Assam has constituted a fourteen-member committee headed by the Assam Cultural Affairs Minister Bimal Bora to advise it on ways to prepare a separate Unicode chart for the Assamese script.
The committee will also include an additional chief secretary, President of the apex literary body of state, Assam Sahitya Sabha, Assam Unicode activist Dr Satyakam Phukan and eleven others as members from various fields.
The mandate of the committee is to advise the government on the development of the Assamese script and the development of a separate Unicode.
Unicode characters are defined by the international standard ISO 10646; ISO does the encoding on the basis of submissions from the concerned governments.