
Coimbatore: His creative work has been accepted globally. But, he failed to get due recognition locally even after his death. He is Umar Thambi, the pioneer, who contributed to Unicode by developing fonts for Tamil computing. Bringing to light Umar's pioneering effort at a press briefing in Coimbatore, M H Jawahirullah, state president, Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam (TMMK) said that he had written a detailed letter to Chief Minister M Karunanidhi detailing the contributions made by Umar Thambi for the cause of Tamil computing. Interestingly, Umar developed the Tamil fonts using Unicode for Tamil computing without any basic collegiate education.It...