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Telugu

U+0C00 – U+0C7F   (3072–3199)

The Telugu script is used for the Telugu language, which belongs to the Dravidian group and is used by the majority of people in the Indian State of Andhra Pradesh. You can find some real (non-Unicode) Telugu text at the Eenadu and Andhra Prabha daily news sites. You can find some Unicode Telugu on the What is Unicode? in Telugu page, at Tirumala Krishna Desikacharyulu’s Kavya-nandanam site, and on Xenotype’s Telugu Unicode Sample page.

Microsoft Windows incorporates support for Telugu Unicode from Windows XP onwards.

For users of Macintosh OS X 10.2, a commercial Telugu Language Kit with a Unicode font and 2 keyboard layouts is available from XenoType Technologies.

The characters that appear in the first column of the following table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages.

You can find some or all of the characters in this range in the Windows Unicode fonts Akshar Unicode, Arial Unicode MS, Code2000, Free Idg Serif, Free Serif, Gautami, Pothana2000, Saraswati5 and Sun-ExtA; and in the Macintosh OS X Unicode font Pothana.

To see exactly which characters are included in a particular font, you can use a utility such as Andrew West’s BabelMap, or WunderMoosen’s FontChecker.

If you are not familiar with the characters, you can check the characters displayed here with the graphical display at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0C00.pdf.

Copyright © 1999–2014 Alan Wood

The hexadecimal numbers and the character names in the above table are taken from the Unicode 7.0.0 Character Database, Copyright © 1991–2014 Unicode, Inc., as contained in UnicodeData.txt on the Unicode ftp site (ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/) in October 2014.

Created 3rd February 1999   Last updated 28th October 2014