On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 7:49 PM, John Hudson <[email protected]> wrote: > I asked for technical issues related to computer encoding, not yet more > insistence on the specialness and uniqueness of Tamil. I've got a Jewish > colleague who will happily spend hours asserting to you that the Hebrew > alphabet is the only one that is of direct divine origin, and he will also > provide you with illustrated citations of Jewish grammarians demonstrating > the relationship of Hebrew letters to the shape of the mouth and, yes, > places of articulation. This is all very interesting as a cultural > phenomenon, but nothing to do with computer encoding. > >
Unicode has seen over the last years from a small group of people but in high powers in Tamil Nadu sending e-mails with wrong propaganda about encoding. Now Govt. of India has given its proposal to encode Grantha script, an ancient script that has been used historically to write not only Indo-Aryan and Dravidian langauge texts, but also a host of additional languages in South East Asia. Many letters of both Grantha and Tamil look similar, but due to the conjunct formation, virama - shape and properties, and especially the vertical stacking in grantha, repha forms, the different sets of vowel signs (matra-s), etc., words written in the 2 scripts look very different. Those not knowing the script or encoding principles talk about the grantha conjuncts, ksha & shrii and so on. N. Ganesan > > JH > > -- > > Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com > Gulf Islands, BC [email protected] > > A pilgrimage is a journey undertaken in the > light of a story. -- Paul Elie > >
