In order to facilitate the use of Indian languages on computers, a common standard for coding Indian scripts called ISCII was developed in India during mid 1980s. It is an 8-bit code representation for Indian languages which means it can represent 28 = 256 characters. It retains all 128 ASCII codes and uses rest of the codes (128) for additional Indian language character set. Additional codes have been assigned in the upper region (160– 255) for the ‘aksharas’ of the language.
