Offtopic : Unicode and Bengali

2002-03-05 Thread Dhrubajyoti Banerjee
Hi, I was taking a bit of time off by searching what is available for Unicode on Indic Scripts I came across this site http://wwwakshorcom/ Although I was quite amused at first, with excerpts like, To minimize the codepage issue a brand new technology has lunched just a few years ago ,

Re: Offtopic : Unicode and Bengali

2002-03-05 Thread Martin Kochanski
Now it may be pedantic of me, but I can just imagine a defence for the approach that these guys are taking The correct way of implementing Bengali is (as I think you are saying) as follows: 1 Use the defined Unicode code points 2 Use (or design) a font that is intelligent enough to combine

Re: Offtopic : Unicode and Bengali

2002-03-05 Thread Michael Everson
At 09:09 + 2002-05-03, Dhrubajyoti Banerjee wrote: I hope Unicode proliferates fast in these areas so people can understand it and use it without wasting time in such activities as reinventing the wheel regards, Dhruba I am delighted to hear you say this, Dhruba Usually we only hear the

Re: Offtopic : Unicode and Bengali

2002-03-05 Thread Markus Scherer
Martin Kochanski wrote: And (3) it is not yet realistic to expect that all software will be able to handle the non-1-to-1 relationship between characters and glyphs, and it won't be for some time This argument belongs into the 1980s, not into the 2000s It is one reason why Unicode has