Assamese people dispute over the definition of Assamese people, in general; the people belonging to the state of Assam are referred as Assamese people. The lack of a definition has put stumbling blocks in implementing "clause 6" of the Assam Accord, an agreement signed by the activists of the Assam Movement and the Government of India in 1985. Since a legal definition is important to provide "constitutional, legislative and cultural" safeguards to the Assamese people, the Government of Assam had formed a ministerial committee to finalize the definition in March 2007. To address the "clause 6" issue, AASU had announced a definition
Assamese alphabet keyboard locations of three characters unique to the Assamese script are depicted below:" The "Indian languages TRANSliteration" (ITRANS) the ASCII transliteration scheme for Indic scripts here, Assamese; the characterisations are given below: The following is a sample text in Assamese of the Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Assamese in Assamese alphabet Assamese in phonetic Romanization 1 Assamese in phonetic Romanization 2 Assamese in the International Phonetic Alphabet Gloss Translation The Bengali–Assamese script was added to the Unicode Standard in October 1991 with the release of version 1.0. The Unicode block for Assamese and Bengali is U+0980–U+09FF: