On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Abu Zaher<zahe...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just had a talk regarding this with Golam Mortaza Bhai, pasting that for > future references :) > > (05:52:23 PM) zahe...@gmail.com/HomeC8631CA7: I've mailed you regarding an > issue betten 'ত্ and 'ৎ', if you get the time, plase feel free to answer > (05:52:25 PM) Golam Mortuza Hossain: I mean I got > (05:52:30 PM) zahe...@gmail.com/HomeC8631CA7: cool > (05:52:34 PM) Golam Mortuza Hossain: Please > (05:52:42 PM) Golam Mortuza Hossain: follow "ৎ" > (05:53:26 PM) Golam Mortuza Hossain: Khanda-Ta as a separate glyph is now > Unicode standard > (05:54:03 PM) Golam Mortuza Hossain: which wasn't the case earlier > (05:54:41 PM) zahe...@gmail.com/HomeC8631CA7: I was following ৎ all this > time, but came across some sites that have ত্ and the fact that in unicode > character set ৎ has a comment like this "a dead consonant form of ta, > without implicit vowel, used in some sequences", that why I thought I > consult you > (05:55:48 PM) Golam Mortuza Hossain: the reason for this, earlier there was > no glyph for "Khanda-Ta" in Unicode > (05:55:59 PM) zahe...@gmail.com/HomeC8631CA7: yeah I know > (05:57:03 PM) Golam Mortuza Hossain: If you want to make it backward > compatible then > (05:57:23 PM) Golam Mortuza Hossain: you could consider mapping "ত্" > (05:57:31 PM) Golam Mortuza Hossain: to "ৎ" > (05:57:40 PM) Golam Mortuza Hossain: But it could be tricky > (05:58:57 PM) zahe...@gmail.com/HomeC8631CA7: yeah > (05:59:07 PM) zahe...@gmail.com/HomeC8631CA7: I know, I tried a bit > (05:59:36 PM) Golam Mortuza Hossain: :-) > (06:01:17 PM) zahe...@gmail.com/HomeC8631CA7: we might need to build a table > for that, for eg. ত্ক - ৎক its always like that isn't it, but we can't map > like it in উত্তর > (06:01:36 PM) zahe...@gmail.com/HomeC8631CA7: so we might need a to check > all these :( > (06:02:32 PM) Golam Mortuza Hossain: If I remember correctly then sometime > people also > (06:02:42 PM) Golam Mortuza Hossain: used ZWNJ after Halant > (06:02:51 PM) zahe...@gmail.com/HomeC8631CA7: yeah > (06:03:03 PM) zahe...@gmail.com/HomeC8631CA7: I've seen that too > (06:03:21 PM) Golam Mortuza Hossain: this case should be easy > (06:04:30 PM) Golam Mortuza Hossain: also when it appears just before "," , > ":", "।", "?", " " etc. > (06:04:44 PM) zahe...@gmail.com/HomeC8631CA7: am alreay running the source > text through a normalizer right now, becase ড় - ড + nukta, we sometimes get > text in the complex form and the parser gets confused > (06:04:54 PM) zahe...@gmail.com/HomeC8631CA7: aha > (06:05:23 PM) Golam Mortuza Hossain: yeah I see > (06:06:50 PM) zahe...@gmail.com/HomeC8631CA7: so you think its do-able > right? > (06:07:22 PM) Golam Mortuza Hossain: no > (06:07:52 PM) zahe...@gmail.com/HomeC8631CA7: btw, could I paste this > conversation in the group just as a reference for the others? > (06:09:11 PM) Golam Mortuza Hossain: In some cases unambiguous mapping may > not be possible > (06:09:16 PM) Golam Mortuza Hossain: Yeah, sure > (06:13:37 PM) Golam Mortuza Hossain: My suggestion would be handle only "ৎ" > in the engine. > (06:15:28 PM) Golam Mortuza Hossain: If needed then mapping should be done > in text pre-parser. > (06:16:21 PM) Golam Mortuza Hossain: In the long term "ত্" appearance will > go away! > (06:16:30 PM) zahe...@gmail.com/HomeC8631CA7: I agree >
yes, keep working with "ৎ" > -- > Regards > Abu Zaher Md. Faridee > > http://zaher14.blogspot.com/ > http://sourceforge.net/projects/apertium/ > --- > Time heals every wound, but time itself is a wound that never heals. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Bengalinux-core mailing list Bengalinux-core@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bengalinux-core
