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Google has begun supporting Unicode 5.1 in search. Unicode 5.1 was officially released on April 04, 2008 by The Unicode Consortium and it took Google less than a month to support it.

According to the news posted on Google Blog this will allow people speaking languages such as Malayalam to search for words containing the new characters in Unicode 5.1.

Web pages can use a variety of different character encodings, like ASCII, Latin-1, or Windows 1252, or Unicode. Most encodings can only represent a few languages, but Unicode will handle anything from Chinese to French to Arabic.

Unicode 5.1.0 contains over 100,000 characters, and provides significant additions and improvements that extend text processing for software worldwide. Some of the key features are:

• Increased security in data exchange
• Significant character additions for Indic and South East Asian scripts
• Expanded identifier specifications for Indic and Arabic scripts
• Improvements in the processing of Tamil and other Indic scripts
• Line breaking conformance relaxation for HTML and other protocols
• Strengthened normalization stability
• And new case pair stability