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is from today!)
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--- Marco Cimarosti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Keyur Shroff wrote:
> > But sometimes a user may want visual representation of these
> > symbols in two different ways: with dotted circle and
> > without dotted circle.
>
> Why not using a dotted circle character explicity, when you want to see
>
Christopher John Fynn wrote:
> I had thought that the argument for including KSSA as a seperate
> character in the Tibetan block (rather than only having U+0F40 and
> U+0FB5) was originally for compatibility / cross mapping with
> Devanagari and other Indic scripts.
Which is not a valid reason
Keyur Shroff wrote
> Kent Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > A space followed by a dependent vowel sign should display just the
> > dependent vowel sign, no dotted circle. Indeed, (except for a "show
> > invisibles" mode, or a "character chart" display mode) no (Indic or
> > other)
> >
Aditya Gokhale wrote:
> 1. In Marathi and Sanskrit language two characters glyphs of
> 'la' and 'sha' are represented differently as shown in the
> image below -
Actually, for everyone's information: these allographs for Marathi were
recently brought to our attention, and Unicode 4.0 will have
Michael Everson wrote:
> At 02:13 -0800 2003-01-29, Keyur Shroff wrote:
> >I beg to differ with you on this point. Merely having some provision for
> >composing a character doesn't mean that the character is not a candidate
> >for inclusion as separate code point.
> Yes, it does.
> >India is
Keyur Shroff wrote:
> But sometimes a user may want visual representation of these
> symbols in two different ways: with dotted circle and
> without dotted circle.
Why not using a dotted circle character explicity, when you want to see one?
> Example of
> this could be RAsup on top of dotted cir
--- Kent Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> A space followed by a dependent vowel sign should display just the
> dependent vowel sign, no dotted circle. Indeed, (except for a "show
> invisibles" mode, or a "character chart" display mode) no (Indic or
> other)
> text that does not contain th
> > I wouldn't go so far. The fact that clusters belong together is something
> > that can be handled by the software. Collation and other data processing
> > needs to deal with such issues already for many other languages. See
> > http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr10 on the collation algorithm.
--- Marco Cimarosti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Why not representing INV with a double ZWJ? E.g.:
>
> ISCII Unicode
> KA halant INV KA virama ZWJ ZWJ
> RA halant INV RA virama ZWJ ZWJ (i.e., repha)
> INV halant RA ZWJ ZWJ virama RA
> The [new] INV character in Unicode can also be used for displaying dependent
> vowel matras without dotted circle.
A space followed by a dependent vowel sign should display just the
dependent vowel sign, no dotted circle. Indeed, (except for a "show
invisibles" mode, or a "character chart" dis
Keyur Shroff wrote:
> In the FAQ
>http://www.unicode.org/faq/indic.html#16
>
> It is mentioned that following are equivalent
>
> ISCII Unicode
> KA halant INV KA virama ZWJ
> RA halant INV RAsup (i.e., repha)
The last line is really bizarre! I would agree that
At 02:13 -0800 2003-01-29, Keyur Shroff wrote:
I beg to differ with you on this point. Merely having some provision for
composing a character doesn't mean that the character is not a candidate
for inclusion as separate code point.
Yes, it does.
India is a big country with millions of people ge
Keyur Shroff scripsit:
> Sentiments are attached with cultures which may vary from one geographical
> area to another. So when one of the many languages falling under the same
> script dominate the entire encoding for the script, then other group of
> people may feel that their language has not be
Hello,
There are few discrepancies in Indic FAQ. Though it was reported earlier by
Andy White, I see they still have place there in the FAQ. I also clarified
it but by mistake I sent the mail to Yahoo groups where this mailing list
is archived and hence my mail never reached to this mailing list.
--- Asmus Freytag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >All of the above can be composed through following consonant clusters:
> > jna -> ja halant nya
> > shra -> sha halant ra
> > ksh -> ka halant ssha
> >
> >The point that the above sequences are considered as characters in some
> of
> >the
Aditya Gokhale wrote:
> Hello Everybody,
> I had few query regarding representation of Devanagari
> script in Unicode
All your questions are FAQ's, so I'll just reference the entries which
answers them.
> (Code page - 0x0900 - 0x097F). Devanagari is a writing
> script, is used in Hindi, Mar
Hello,
Thanks for the reply. I will check the points as you said, as far as the
font issues are considered. We all know how jna,shra and ksh are formed in
UNICODE and ISCII, but the point I wanted to make was, if we have to sort /
search / process the data in Devanagari script, then we have to
At 11:54 PM 1/28/03 -0800, Keyur Shroff wrote:
--- Aditya Gokhale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 2. Implementation Query -
> In an implementation where I need to send / process Hindi, Marathi
> and Sanskrit data, how do I differentiate between languages (Hindi,
> Marathi and Sanskrit). Say fo
Hi,
Forgot to reply implementation query. The reply is inline.
--- Aditya Gokhale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2. Implementation Query -
> In an implementation where I need to send / process Hindi, Marathi
> and Sanskrit data, how do I differentiate between languages (Hindi,
> Marathi and Sa
At 11:05 AM 1/28/03 -0800, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
Curtis asked:
> I have a distinct memory of a precomposed Latin letter n with diaeresis
> (as in the band Spinal Tap), but now I can't find it. It doesn't matter
> to me whether it exists or not, other than helping me to understand my
> memory. A
Hi Aditya,
--- Aditya Gokhale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I had few query regarding representation of Devanagari script in
> Unicode
> (Code page - 0x0900 - 0x097F). Devanagari is a writing script, is used in
> Hindi, Marathi and Sanskrit languages. I have following questions -
>
>
> In th
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