> Scrabble and crossworld puzzles aren't quite the same thing. The deal > with crossword puzzles is that you only need to put in the exact > glyphs that are in the crossword puzzle, whereas scrabble will have to > have every single one. In Nepali, the number of devnagari letters we > use (vowel+consonant) > is 36 * 12 + c where c > 0, for some "extra characters." > > To illustrate what I am saying: in a crossword puzzle that has the > word होली, you can just use other words that utilize हो but not any of > the other vowel conjugates of ह, ie हा हि ही हु हू हो हौ हे है हं ह: . In > scrabble, you'd need to provide all of these as tiles that one could > use. The set of words in crossword puzzles is limited, and therefore > the set of glyphs used, much smaller than the number I listed above. > > And there is still the issue of half letters. ie. words like कुर्ता (क ु > र् त ा) चिन्ह (ि च न् ह or च ि न् ह )? > > -prabhas An idea would be to provide the standard set of letters and for each of them also allow the user to select a vowel conjugate or make it a half-letter. It seems reasonable to me.
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