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Articles and guides on Telugu text encoding, Anu Script, and converting between Unicode and non Unicode.

Telugu is one of the few scripts where two incompatible ways of storing text are both still in daily use. Unicode gives every character a permanent code point that travels with the text. Anu Script and the other legacy systems store ASCII byte values whose meaning depends entirely on which font is applied. A newspaper page laid out in PageMaker and the same words on a website are, at the byte level, unrelated files.

Everything here is written for people who have to move text across that line — DTP operators, publishers, and anyone who opened an old Telugu document and found symbols instead of words. The guides explain the encoding itself; the converter and the 684-form mapping table do the actual work.

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