das said on Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 08:07:44PM +0530,: > If a hack really takes place that makes a character (struck-out-Ba) > available to the Bengali script, which was never historically there, > that project will not just be anachronistic, it will be in violation > of all the social logic that go into language, the most social one of > all our inheritances. Not just Bengali, all the other scripts in the > lineage chain, like Assamese, from where it came, or like Oriya, what > it became, are scripts that never contained a dual Ba/Va like > Devnagari does. The character that looks like the Nagari Ba is > actually ra, as our friends have already pointed out.
Sir, please keep XYZ the script and the language written using the XYZ script distinct. Sri Swarup's requirement is very specific - he wants to write Sanskrit using Bangala / Bengali script. Right now, you are reading the Latin script. This mail is in in English, written in Latin script. Some people (mostly in Goa and Karnataka) use this same Latin script to write Konkani. But, I write Konkani using the Malayalam script. But the constitution of India says that for official purposes, Konkani should be written using the Devanagari Script. Writing a language using the script usually used for another language is very normal and common, especially for Sanskrit. This is not about "conflating two codepoints" (Sankarshan's reply to Perrier's mail or as you are fearing, corrupting the Bengali language. > I think, even if that hack is done, and that hack gets really popular > among larger sections of the Bengali mass in the coming decades, what If this was not in the Bengali language for past 3 centuries, what makes you think this will become populat in the coming decades? Please note that I am not taking sides. I am totally disinterested. And I really do not understand what Karnukar is trying to do. IMHO, another alternative they (Karunakar and Swarup) ought to have considered is use of a custom LOCALE. This is assuming that what swarup wants a glyph which looks same as the character now used for Assamese. -- Mahesh T. Pai || A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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