Re: Unicode and Bengali

2002-03-05 Thread James E. Agenbroad
On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Doug Ewell wrote: > Dhrubajyoti Banerjee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [quoting Akshor] > > I thing we need not be restrained by these so-called 'standards'. > Because, > > they can't and will not serve our need (Bengali) in my humble view. > Thats > > why we toke this proje

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

Re: Unicode and Bengali

2002-03-05 Thread Doug Ewell
Dhrubajyoti Banerjee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [quoting Akshor] > I thing we need not be restrained by these so-called 'standards'. Because, > they can't and will not serve our need (Bengali) in my humble view. Thats > why we toke this project at our hand and working to impliment a universal > i

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 he

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

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://www.akshor.com/ 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