On Wed, 16 May 2018 13:46:22 -0700
Doug Ewell via Unicode wrote:
> http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2018/18181-n4947-assamese.pdf
>
> This is a fascinating proposal to disunify the Assamese script from
> Bengali on the following bases:
According to the proposal, the encoding for
On Thu, 17 May 2018 11:43:00 -0700
Doug Ewell via Unicode wrote:
> It is the same for Bengali and Assamese, although the
> language-specific subsets are called abugidas instead of alphabets.
If we allow an abugida to be different to an alphasyllabary, then, in
Thailand,
Otto Stolz wrote:
> I wonder how English and French ever could
> be made to use a single script, let alone
> German (???), Icelandic (???), Swedish (???),
> Latvian (???), Chech (???) or ? you name it.
They do use the same script, Latin. They do not use the same alphabet.
Each language has its
I wrote:
> ক্ is a conjunct consisting of three code points
s/ক্/ক্ষ/
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Everyone,
I was not serious about this proposal being "fascinating" or in any way
a model for what should happen with the Bengali script.
Please imagine a tongue-in-cheek expression as you re-read my post.
Maybe there is an emoji that depicts this. Maybe I've just been away
from the list too
On 5/16/2018 3:41 PM, Anshuman Pandey
via Unicode wrote:
If folks are interested in a valid proposal for disunification of
Bengali, please look at the proposal for Tirhuta.
Location?
A./
William Overington offered a suggestion,
⇒ Maybe people should be helping to get this resolved
⇒ to the satisfaction of all and helping rather than
⇒ criticising.
That's a noble thought, but as long as Assamese continues to be
written using the Eastern Nagari script, which is referred to as
Otto Stolz wrote:
> I wonder how English and French ever could be made to use a single script,
> let alone German (“ß”), Icelandic (“þ”), Swedish (“å”), Latvian (“ē”), Chech
> (“č”) or – you name it.
Years ago I used to hand set metal type - letterpress printing was a family
hobby.
For a
Am 2018-05-16 um 22:46 Uhr hat Doug Ewell geschrieben:
2. Collation is different between the Assamese and Bengali languages,
and code point order should reflect collation order.
…
4. The use of a single encoded script to write two languages forces
users to use language identifiers to identify
On Thu, 17 May 2018 01:24:09 +0100
Michael Everson via Unicode wrote:
> It sounds to me like a fault in the keyboard software, which could be
> fixed by the people who own and maintain that software.
We had this discussion a few years ago. See
On Wed, 16 May 2018 17:41:12 -0500
Anshuman Pandey via Unicode wrote:
> > 3. Keyboard design is more difficult because consonants like ক্ষ
> > are encoded as conjunct forms instead of atomic characters.
>
> Ignorant question on my part: is it difficult to use character
>
It sounds to me like a fault in the keyboard software, which could be fixed by
the people who own and maintain that software.
> On 17 May 2018, at 01:20, Richard Wordingham via Unicode
> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 17 May 2018 00:34:35 +0100
> Michael Everson via Unicode
On Thu, 17 May 2018 00:34:35 +0100
Michael Everson via Unicode wrote:
> This is not a fault of the encoding.
>
> > On 16 May 2018, at 23:01, Richard Wordingham via Unicode
> > wrote:
> >
> > I think simple Windows keyboards have a limit of 4 16-bit
And Icelandic. And Irish. And so on.
> On 16 May 2018, at 23:41, Anshuman Pandey via Unicode
> wrote:
>
>> 2. Collation is different between the Assamese and Bengali languages,
>> and code point order should reflect collation order.
>
> The same issue applies to
This is not a fault of the encoding.
> On 16 May 2018, at 23:01, Richard Wordingham via Unicode
> wrote:
>
> I think simple Windows keyboards have a limit of 4 16-bit code units;
> for an Indic SMP script, one couldn't map to a single key, as it
> would require 6 code
> On May 16, 2018, at 3:46 PM, Doug Ewell via Unicode
> wrote:
>
> http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2018/18181-n4947-assamese.pdf
>
> This is a fascinating proposal to disunify the Assamese script from
> Bengali on the following bases:
‘Fascinating’ is a not a term I’d use for
On Wed, 16 May 2018 13:46:22 -0700
Doug Ewell via Unicode wrote:
> http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2018/18181-n4947-assamese.pdf
>
> This is a fascinating proposal to disunify the Assamese script from
> Bengali on the following bases:
> 3. Keyboard design is more difficult
http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2018/18181-n4947-assamese.pdf
This is a fascinating proposal to disunify the Assamese script from
Bengali on the following bases:
1. The identity of Assamese as a script distinct from Bengali is in
jeopardy.
2. Collation is different between the Assamese and Bengali
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