Namaskar, I thought that I should add here that I have been involved with work supportive of Indlinux for several years. Perhaps all are aware of the extremely popular Baraha program in Windows, used for typing the various Indian scripts. In 2007 I approached Indlinux for help with bringing the Baraha schema into SCIM. Gora Mohanty was just wonderful; he came forward and took on the project, and after making the keymap for Hindi/devanagarii we tested it extensively together until it was perfect. The result of that work was the hi-baraha.mim. Here reads the beginning of the hi-baraha.mim file--
;; hi-baraha.mim -- Hindi input method mimicking the ;; closed-source Baraha system ;; Copyright (C) 2007, Gora Mohanty <g...@sarai.net> ;; Table is courtesy of Swarup <dinban...@sprynet.com>, who ;; put in a lot of effort into making this keymap happen. Following that, and at the request of several other Indlinux list members, Gora also created similar Baraha-based .mim files, for use with several other Indian scripts. I include the above by way of expressing that I am committed to the same goals as others on this list, that of making the broadly accepted standardized forms of the various Indian languages and their scripts, available for use by all, in linux. On Fri, 2012-04-06 at 13:28 +0530, Mahesh T. Pai wrote: > That said, I think you should take this up with the Unicode consortium; > you are already advised by others to approach them. See the link below:- > > http://www.unicode.org/consortium/distlist.html > > The Indic list is, IMHO most appropriate. Here I would like to express that it is not our goal or intention to spread this keymap including ৰ and ব throughout Bengal for use with Bengali language typing. Ours is instead a specialized use with regard to the typing of Samskritam in Shriiharsa lipi. It is for an "in-house" project of my small team here. I do not want that anyone should misunderstand this as a danger or a challenge to the existing standard of Bengali-- this project is rather very specific, relating to the typing of Samskritam. And because it is not intended for general use, to approach the unicode consortium likely represents a prolonged process whose scope is beyond that of my intentions-- which are again that of a small, in-house project for typing Samskritam. At the same time I will add that if any of you or anyone else has need for this keymap, once made, for typing Samskritam in Shiiharsa script, you will be most welcome to use it. Understanding my request for what it is--a limited-scope, limited-use keymap designed for a small number of people typing Samskritam in Shriiharsa lipi-- please kindly help me with my goal of getting BA (ৰ) to work in my bn-baraha.mim file. I support the dignified and noble standardized goals which Indlinux has, and wish to request your help with this specialized task I have, so that I may move ahead with this in-house project of typing Samskritam in Shriiharsa script. Having understood that it is neither good neither possible to use the code U+09F0 for Bangla BA, I have left this idea. The work of establishing the standard of Unicode Bangla and Unicode Assamese must not be disrupted. Using a different technique I need to get the glyph of shape "ৰ" to work with other consonants to form the proper conjuncts. Two possibilities: 1) Perhaps as suggested, we could use a code which is a normal consonant and gives behaviour similar to VA/BA. Only in the font the shape will be like BA and not the character itself. 2) Another thought is to define the BA in private use area of Unicode with some value, and within the font define it and give rules similar to VA. So in conclusion, in place of U+09F0 we could use any code which you think best, and assign the ৰ shape and conjunct rules to that code. Regards, Swarup ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 _______________________________________________ IndLinux-group mailing list IndLinux-group@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/indlinux-group
