2012/4/8 ॐ <shir...@gurudrushti.in>: > i am asking a simple question... the answer may not be so simple.. till > govt. of india decided to come up with the symbol for rupee, some folks > opted their own way without waiting for national consensus to evolve, and > one of noted is a bengali script... then why this harsh standard of pushing > swarup or whosoever it happens to be, through the unicode standardization > process...
Since we are asking a question for a question, this is going to soon become interesting. However, if you did notice the proliferation of the "Rupee symbol in font" commercialization, you'd have also noticed that once the symbol was decided upon and, the adequate technical bits done, the mass distributed and available fonts settled down into some form of standard. Sure, the first few weeks were pure chaos, but guess where those fonts are now ? I am at a loss as to where you conclude the "harsh"ness or, "pushing swarup". A lot of the emails from Runa have had a single common theme - the Bengali community would like to see this proposed in a manner that enables all fonts to comply with the specification. And, thereafter there is a pointer that the character in question has for long not been a part of the Bengali language. Now, there have been a couple of native speakers of the language who have said that. And, Runa has pointed to the grammar book from Halhead about the evolution/history of this specific character. To attempt to put it more simply - a hack around the PUA would solve Swarup's purpose. It will allow him to input and to print. However, at any point in time, should he need to distribute the electronic copies of the document or, those documents form part of a record, information retrieval is going to become difficult. Because, his niche need never made it into a specification around which others could comply. That is the cogent summary of what the issue is. And, why it is better not to have hacks. Now, as an aside, I have requested and solicited some elaborations from you on your email around Bengali lipi. If you could also respond to them, I'd be grateful. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
