Re: Proposal to add Bengali Khanda Ta

2002-12-03 Thread Antoine LECA
Hi folks, This post is a bit long, so here is a resume: - regarding the encodings of TMA, they are currently several possibilities, so it should be possible to sort all normal cases with current characters. - however, this shows that ISCII provides a characetr, INV, with no counter part in

RE: Proposal to add Bengali Khanda Ta

2002-12-03 Thread Peter_Constable
On 12/02/2002 10:23:54 AM Andy White wrote: Marco wrote My counter-proposal is: 09A4 + 034F + 09CD [= Khanda Ta] (TA + CGJ + VIRAMA) I thought about your proposal and checked up on the semantics of CGJ. The Standard states, In particular, inserting a combining grapheme

RE: Proposal to add Bengali Khanda Ta

2002-12-02 Thread Andy White
Marco wrote My counter-proposal is: 09A4 + 034F + 09CD [= Khanda Ta] (TA + CGJ + VIRAMA) This strong way of encoding Kanda Ta would anyway not exclude the default soft formation of KhandaTa at the end of a word, with the simple sequence:

RE: Proposal to add Bengali Khanda Ta

2002-12-02 Thread Andy White
Marco wrote My counter-proposal is: 09A4 + 034F + 09CD [= Khanda Ta] (TA + CGJ + VIRAMA) This strong way of encoding Kanda Ta would anyway not exclude the default soft formation of KhandaTa at the end of a word, with the simple sequence:

FW: [Freebangfont-devel] Proposal to add Bengali Khanda Ta

2002-11-30 Thread Andy White
--- Andy White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please see my Proposal to add 'Bengali Letter Khanda Ta' to the Unicode Standard (initial version) The proposal has one problem regarding backward compatibility of unicode with ISCII. In iLeap software khandata is coded as Explicit Halant form

RE: Proposal to add Bengali Khanda Ta

2002-11-29 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Andy White wrote: Please see and comment on my Proposal to add 'Bengali Letter Khanda Ta' to the Bengali Block (initial version): http://www.exnet.btinternet.co.uk/KhandaWeb/khandaproposal.htm | [...] | This example shows that in order to display the correct | spelling of the word 'satmaa

RE: Proposal to add Bengali Khanda Ta

2002-11-29 Thread Andy White
Marco wrote I have a few questions: - What is the meaning of satmaa and sadaatmaa? 'satmaa' means stepmother. 'sadaatmaa' means 'good soul' / 'virtuous' - Why is /tmaa/ spelled differently in the two words? 'satmaa' has the roots of 'sat' = good 'Maa' = mother. As 'Sat' is correctly

RE: Proposal to add Bengali Khanda Ta

2002-11-29 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Andy White wrote: Marco wrote I have a few questions: - What is the meaning of satmaa and sadaatmaa? 'satmaa' means stepmother. 'sadaatmaa' means 'good soul' / 'virtuous' Bingo! Well, nearly... My guess was that satmaa was the Bengali for Wachstube. :-) German has two different

Proposal to add Bengali Khanda Ta

2002-11-28 Thread Andy White
Dear All, Please see and comment on my Proposal to add 'Bengali Letter Khanda Ta' to the Bengali Block (initial version): http://www.exnet.btinternet.co.uk/KhandaWeb/khandaproposal.htm Thanks Andy