On বৃহস্পতিবার 05 এপ্রিল 2012 04:14 9, Pravin Satpute wrote: > On 04/05/2012 12:00 AM, Swarup wrote: >> Hello Pravin, I am writing from Sanskrita Pracara Sabha; we are a >> non-for-profit dedicated to preparing Sanskrita shlokas in the local >> languages of the states throughout India. Now we are working on >> transcribing over 700 shlokas into Shriiharsa (Bangla) script, and for that >> we need to make a slight adjustment in one char of the font. For writing >> Samskritam it needs a separate BA and VA, while as you know in Bangla there >> is only one char for the two sounds, both being pronounced BA. In >> Shriiharsa script, to transcribe the Samskritam shlokas we use the Bangla ব >> (U +09AC) for the sound VA, and ৰ (U+09F0) for BA. But we need the ৰ (U >> +09F0) to behave the same as ব (U+09AC) with consonant conjuncts.
Honestly, this is starting to feel like talking to a wall. I really think you ought to go ahead to Unicode (with the relevant validation and through proper channels) and make a case for a separate Shriharsha script chart. If there was any ancient connection between the Shriharsha and Bangla scripts, it has long since been lost to merit one now. If anyone is interested feel free to read Nathaniel Halhead's Bengali Grammar book (from 1778)[1] where he clearly explains how both variations of the Bengali BA are used and also shows the ancient and modern glyphs for RA. [1] http://books.google.co.in/books?id=bttGAAAAcAAJ&; -- blog: http://arrbee.wordpress.com irc: arrbee or runa_b on Freenode http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Runab ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to monitoring Big Data applications. Try Boundary one-second resolution app monitoring today. Free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-dev2dev _______________________________________________ IndLinux-group mailing list IndLinux-group@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/indlinux-group
