U.B. Pavanaja, who is the founder and editor of www.vishvakannada.com, which is the first online Kannada magazine, is a senior IT expert, who  toiled for its inclusion said that Tulu has been added in the Unicode Standard, Version 16.0.” The Unicode 16.0 is slated for release on September 10, 2024. 80 Tulu characters have been added to the Unicode last week. He said that when he visited the Unicode Consortium in 2001 to help in correcting Kannada in Unicode, he had appealed to include Tulu in Unicode. Then the Consortium had asked him to send a proposal.

After Tulu Wikipedia went live on August 6, 2016, Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy in Mangalore realised the need of Unicode for Tulu. It formed a committee to finalise the Tulu characters in Tulu script and send a proposal to the Consortium. He said that a keyboard with Tulu font will have to be developed. Software will have to be created for converting all information related to Tulu so far uploaded in Kannada script and stored in IT network, into Tulu script. Then when information is searched through the search engine using Tulu script, they will appear in Tulu script.