RE: Transcoding Tamil in the presence of markup

[Michael Everson]

At 13:18 +0100 2003-12-07, Peter Jacobi wrote:

This is the core problem. Legacy Tamil encodings and use see  the 
vowel signs as individual characters. Switching to ISCII or Unicode 
will break this.
Oh well. Sometimes data can't be migrated reversibly. Think of the 
thousand years that Unicode *will* be used, rather than the little 
bit of data generated in the last twenty years.
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com