> The Indian government dropped the ball here. They went their separate way with "ISCII" and other such misguided efforts, instead of cooperating with UC Acco

> The Indian government dropped the ball here. They went their separate way with "ISCII" and other such misguided efforts, instead of cooperating with UC According to the beginning of chapter 12 of the Unicode Standard 7.0: "The major official scripts of India proper [...] are all encoded according to a common plan, so that comparable characters are in the same order and relative location. This structural arrangement, which facilitates transliteration to some degree, is based on the Indian national standard (ISCII) encoding for these scripts. The first six columns in each script are isomorphic with the ISCII-1988 encoding, except that the last 11 positions, which are unassigned or undefined in ISCII-1988, are used in the Unicode encoding."