Nepali Unicode

Before the development of Nepali Unicode, Nepali fonts such as Himali, Preeti, Kantipur etc. were basically used in to type Nepali documents. All these fonts although employ Devanagari letters as glyphs or pictorial representations of letters, they still use the ASCII encoding for mapping the letters as far as storage of letters in these fonts are concerned. This brings a lot of complications while transferring the data and documents from one computer to the other. It is required that one should have the same font installed in the other computer as in the source computer where the document was prepared for opening and displaying in the target computer. In addition to this, data processing functions like “Sorting”, “Find and Replace”, “Spell checking” were also not possible with such documents.It was only after the release of the Nepali Unicode in 2002 by Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya that these problems were solved.