Tamil orthography is totally different from Devanagari/Sanskrit orthography.
Adding Devanagari symbols and letters to Tamil is another crime, because being fundamentally different orthographies makes it inappropriate to simply import. It has to be structurally analysed for Tamil, not to make Tamil follow Sanskrit path. I think Tamil alphabet system is the scientific system with room for scalable and logical solution. Sanskrit is not a scientific system, it uses random sounds as it alphabet soup, of course with some funky phonemes with high distribution. If there is a scientific/technical reason, Sanskrit should be changed to follow the scientific path, not changing Tamil to follow this random path. Just because they are majority and has the government in their hand, UC should not allow them to change Tamil to follow them. Ask them if they would change to the scientific Tamil method.You will get a big kick from them. They are big, powerful and aragon. Hope UC do not do the criminal work to pave the way for destroying Tamil alphabet system. Sinnathurai --- On Sat, 25/12/10, N. Ganesan <[email protected]> wrote: From: N. Ganesan <[email protected]> Subject: [indic] Re: Revisit Tamil sRi definition in Unicode. To: "Indic Discussion List" <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, 25 December, 2010, 23:37 On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 3:34 PM, John Hudson <[email protected]> wrote: > Sinnathurai Srivas wrote: > >> It is a crime by UC to misinterpret (my name) sRi as sri, which has an >> ugly meaning. >> in Tamil the r/ர instead of R/ற makes the sRi a dirty word. > > ... > >> UC doing the character reform for Tamil without proper analysis and >> approval is another criminal offence by UC. > > 1. You are free to spell your name however you like, and Unicode is not > forcing you to use ர if you prefer to use ற. > > 2. 'Crime' and 'criminal offence' refer to actions that are against the law. > There is no law governing the design of encoding standards, only practical, > technical considerations. > > 3. Endless repetition of an assertion does not constitute reasoned argument. > > > JH > All kinds of near-substitutes are possible between Indian languages, However we need the real one-to-one letters also. This is done by having 5 Sanskrit consonants in Tamil block with Tamil names and character properties (vowel signs, virama, reph forms, ...) and 5 Dravidian consonants in Grantha block proposal for encoding. Without such exact letters, place names, personal names etc., will be missing correct representation. N. Ganesan > -- > > Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com > Gulf Islands, BC [email protected] > > A pilgrimage is a journey undertaken in the > light of a story. -- Paul Elie > >
