Hi Everybody
The Unicode character set in it's current form
does not support Devnagari well.It has no half characters for the Devnagari
script.
It is just like not having e a d f in the
roman(latin) script.
This particular aspect renders it useless to be
used by anyone including programmers.
The Devnagari script is used to write the third
most spoken language of the world - Hindi (spoken by people in almost 10
countries) and a long list of other languages-
Sindhi , Pahari , Dogri, Nepali , Sanskrit ,
Rajasthani , Gharwali , Maithili, Bhojpuri , Marathi , Konkani , Bodo , Ho ,
Santhali and sometimes even Punjabi , Urdu , Kashmiri and
Tibetan.
Although the complete Devnagari is available for
the Windows font as True Type Font in just the no. of keys on a QWERTY
keyboard.Hindi(Devnagari) has it's own typewriter with just the same no. of
keys as in a standard English typewriter.
The font is also availalable for MacOS , Unix ,
Xenix and Linux.
The best Devnagari font available in it's full
useable form is the Shusha font from http://www.bharatbhasha.org .Please
check it out form this site.
Then why is it that the Unicode committee could
not incorporate all the half characters? Instead they incorporated full
characters which are seldom used by the users of the various languages that
are written in Devnagari . What they could have done is provided half
characters in place of the full ones and just provided a DANDA to make them
into full ones as and when needed.
Can somebody help me out.
I just do not seem to understand what to do about
it as the Devnagari representation in it's present form is absolutely useless
for anybody throughout the world.
With Regards
Arjun
Aggarwal
