Internet unicode use of Indian languages

2017-05-02 Thread N. Ganesan via Unicode
In India, Tamil is most used in the internet. https://assets.kpmg.com/content/dam/kpmg/in/pdf/2017/ 04/Indian-languages-Defining-Indias-Internet.pdf http://www.vikatan.com/news/india/88214-tamil-is-the-most- used-indian-language-says-google.html N. Ganesan

Urdu Nastaliq script

2014-03-19 Thread N. Ganesan
http://tribune.com.pk/story/683067/inventing-revolution-the-man-who-gave-urdu-its-wings/ Inventing revolution: The man who gave Urdu its wingshttp://tribune.com.pk/story/683067/inventing-revolution-the-man-who-gave-urdu-its-wings/ By Khalid Rahman http://tribune.com.pk/author/4593/khalid-rahman/

Fwd: IUC 37 - only a week away

2013-10-22 Thread N. Ganesan
is made, over the years, Brahmi, Grantha scripts will be fully able to write both language families - Aryan and Dravidian - in the Indian language sphere in the Web. N. Ganesan http://nganesan.blogspot.com

Re: First known use of the word, email (1978)

2012-11-28 Thread N. Ganesan
, and now further shrunk to email. N. Ganesan On Shiva Aiyadurai's first use of the term in 1978, email for networked electronic messages, apparently Indians and lexicographers do care to know. The same phenomenum occurs when abbreviations become acronyms (not spelled letter by letter) : letters

First known use of the word, email (1978)

2012-11-27 Thread N. Ganesan
has a long history but it was known by different names. It does seem that in 1978, a high school student has coined the word, email, which is now used by everyone. N. Ganesan

Re: First known use of the word, email (1978)

2012-11-27 Thread N. Ganesan
' in E-mail came in the 1990's from William Safire's On Language column in the NY Times newspaper: He made the analogy with T-shirt. Acc. to OED, Electonics magazine used the term E-mail in 1979. http://public.oed.com/appeals/email/ N. Ganesan Clive P. Hohberger, PhD MBA Managing Director Clive

Re: [indic] Indic Transliteration Standards in Cyrillic Greek

2012-11-11 Thread N. Ganesan
://learningrussian.net/pronunciation/transliteration.php N. Ganesan

Re: [indic] Re: Indic Transliteration Standards in Cyrillic Greek

2012-11-11 Thread N. Ganesan
But for some letters, say in Tamil, there won't be equivalents in Cyrillic. N. Ganesan

Did Shiva Aiyadurai invent email?

2012-09-03 Thread N. Ganesan
, of relevance: http://gizmodo.com/5888702/corruption-lies-and-death-threats-the-crazy-story-of-the-man-who-pretended-to-invent-email http://www.bostonmagazine.com/articles/2012/05/shiva-ayyaduri-email-us-postal-service/ --- N. Ganesan

Re: [indic] Indic support in Photoshop CS6 version

2012-05-14 Thread N. Ganesan
, this will certainly happen. N. Ganesan

Re: [indic] Indic support in Photoshop CS6 version

2012-05-14 Thread N. Ganesan
Also, see: http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/article3349487.ece On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 9:18 PM, Pavanaja U B pavan...@vishvakannada.comwrote: I have the same question. I asked it to Adobe India in Facebook. It has not been answered so far, which means it does not exist still. ** **

Fwd: ISO 15919:2001 document

2012-02-23 Thread N. Ganesan
Can a member here send me the PDF file of this ISO standard 15919? ISO 15919:2001 Information and documentation -- Transliteration of Devanagari and related Indic scripts into Latin characters http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=28333 Thanks N

Re: Tamil credit sign - U+0BF7 ௷ as Abbreviation of two words

2012-02-19 Thread N. Ganesan
credit sign has some variants. Thanks for the image of U+0BF7 ௷ from Apple products, N. Ganesan

Re: [indic] Chillu LLL and its encoding in UTS (was: Re: Written Tamil and Srivas' Theory)

2012-02-18 Thread N. Ganesan
that will need the new Telugu LLLA: http://www.thevaaram.org/te/index.php and for that, Telugu LLLA is of immense use. Same thing will happen in Dravidian in Grantha Unicode fonts are available. N. Ganesan On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 5:23 AM, N. Ganesan naa.gane...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012

Tamil Anusvara (U+0B82) glyph shape [ Re: [indic] Dot position in Gurmukhi character U+0A33]

2012-02-08 Thread N. Ganesan
glyph needs to change to be in sync with neighboring Dravidian scripts' anusvara glyph. N. Ganesan http://nganesan.blogspot.com JH -- Tiro Typeworkswww.tiro.com Gulf Islands, BC t...@tiro.com The criminologist's definition of 'public order crimes' comes perilously close

Tamil Anusvara (U+0B82) glyph shape [ Re: Dot position in Gurmukhi character U+0A33]

2012-02-08 Thread N. Ganesan
Indian languages. Regards, Pavanaja Yes. Anusvara and Visarga are core characters needed for transliteration in Tamil script. The Indic, non-Tamil languages' rendition to Tamil script uses them extensively. Regards N. Ganesan

Re: RTL PUA?

2011-08-22 Thread N. Ganesan
benefits. N. Ganesan Jonathan Kew 於 2011年8月21日 上午10:48 寫道: On 21 Aug 2011, at 17:21, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: On 08/21/11 16:44, Shriramana Sharma wrote: BTW can John Jenkins show us a few entries from the prop table of some font supporting the custom Apple PUA characters, especially the RTL

Re: Indian Rupee Sign (U+20B9) proposal

2010-07-29 Thread N. Ganesan
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Tulasi tulas...@gmail.com wrote: I do not see any Unicode role on India Rupee symbol :) why? Here is the rupee sign in a Tamil newspaper: http://epaper.dinakaran.com/pdf/2010/07/28/20100728c_014101005.jpg N. Ganesan

Re: Indian Rupee Sign (U+20B9) proposal

2010-07-28 Thread N. Ganesan
It is good that M. Everson's proposal and Govt. of India proposal are converging. Both ask for Indian Rupee Sign in the Currency block. N. Ganesan

Re: [indic] Indian Rupee symbol

2010-07-15 Thread N. Ganesan
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Kent Karlsson kent.karlsso...@telia.com wrote: Den 2010-07-15 11.54, skrev N. Ganesan naa.gane...@gmail.com: On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 4:08 AM, Dr Pavanaja pavan...@vishvakannada.com wrote: Now that Indian Rupee symbol has been finalised and accepted

Tamil u,uu matra consonants - Orthographic variation

2010-06-09 Thread N. Ganesan
styles and will be useful in calligraphy and rich text publishing. It will break the monotony, for example, the headings can be in ligate forms but body of a text can be in unligate forms of u, uu matras. N. Ganesan

Re: Tamil u,uu matra consonants - Orthographic variation

2010-06-09 Thread N. Ganesan
Sinnathurai - Original Message - From: N. Ganesan To: Unicode Mailing List ; d...@ewellic.org Cc: UnicoRe Mailing List Sent: 09 June 2010 19:36 Subject: Tamil u,uu matra consonants - Orthographic variation Doug Ewell asked: SS sisrivas at blueyonder dot co dot uk wrote