2012/4/9 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) <r...@linux-delhi.org>:
> The Bangla script can also be used for writing other languages. One of
> the languages that may be be written using this script is Sanskrit.
> Unlike the Bangla language, all the characters needed for writing other
> languages are not defined in the Unicode standard. Specifically, the
> "pet-kata-Ba" ("Ba" with a line through its area) -- used to denote "Va"
> -- which is needed for writing Sanskrit, is not available in the Unicode
> Bangla character set.
And, if you look at the page of Nathaniel Halhead's book which Runa
pointed out to, a glyph of the same kind was used to represent 'ra' -
the issue is thus compounded by the need to make a glyph which had a
different function in Bengali to behave in a new way, so as to enable
the Bengali script to be used for writing Sanskrit. Now, this may or
may not be a good thing to do. However, the path towards this is based
on:
- providing some scans (Karunakar has pointed to the links) of documents
- providing details about these documents viz. if they are books - the
publishers, publication date etc
- providing details about whether there are secondary sources
- propose this to the UTC (although whether this glyph would be
acceptable in Bengali is another issue)
- participate in the discussion and see how it goes
/sankarshan
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sankarshan mukhopadhyay
<http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog>
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