Re: Counting Devanagari Aksharas

2017-04-21 Thread Richard Wordingham via Unicode
On Fri, 21 Apr 2017 00:08:24 -0500 Anshuman Pandey via Unicode wrote: > > On Apr 20, 2017, at 8:19 PM, Richard Wordingham via Unicode > > wrote: > > Now imagine you're > > typing Vedic Sanskrit, with its clusters and pitch indicators. > I tried

Re: Counting Devanagari Aksharas

2017-04-21 Thread Manish Goregaokar via Unicode
That seems like a relatively niche use case (especially with Vedic Sanskrit) compared to having weird selection for everything else. I'm not convinced. When I use a romanized Devanagari input method (I typically do on my laptop), deleting the whole cluster is necessary anyway for things to work

Re: Counting Devanagari Aksharas

2017-04-21 Thread Richard Wordingham via Unicode
On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 11:17:05 -0700 Manish Goregaokar via Unicode wrote: > On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 4:35 PM, Richard Wordingham via Unicode > wrote: > > Is there consensus on how to count aksharas in the Devanagari > > script? The doubts I have relate to

Re: Counting Devanagari Aksharas

2017-04-21 Thread Manish Goregaokar via Unicode
> Do Hindi speakers really think of orthographic syllables as characters? When rendered as a cluster, yes? I've asked around, and folks seem to insist on coupling it to the rendering. Given most fonts render *normal* (common, etc) clusters, I think making them EGCs and looking at nonrendered