Looks like most of the issues raised in Grantham proposals should be solved by
variant fonts and not by encoding.
This way hundreds of confusable and duplicates will be avoided. Beside, those
working on simplifying and scaling Devanagari should also look at the proposals
and plan a proper road map for a scientific and scalable system.
For immediate considerations, (The modulator Aytham)
Tamil vs Grantham
1/
Tamil shape kH vs Grantham letter kH
Tamil letter kH = கஃ
Grantham letter kH = "new shape"
Shouldn't Grantham kH be a font specific ligature. Wouldn't the new shape
becomes confusable, if encoded?
How many new *H shapes will be encoded in the future?
Isn't it correct to follow simplified representations using "aytham".
Isn't this what Devanagari reform scholars also calling Unicode to implement?
In Tamil at least there are 64 very basic phonemes in use. Is Grantham and
Devanagari going to encode 64 very basic Dravidian Phonemes?
Does this mean further H ised 64 characters? So we would have 128 confusable
against 18 base characters.
Further, how Grantham going to represent the following expanded modulations?
kHH = கஃஃ
Hk = ஃக
HHk = ஃஃக
in addition to kH=கஃ
More on other issues with Grantham proposal later (such as shape K vs new shape
K).
Sinnathurai Srivas
