AW: metric for block coverage

[Dreiheller, Albrecht via Unicode]

Thanks a lot.

If I understand it right, these are examples in Sanskrit language using Tamil 
script?
More precisely, my question is whether there are examples in (today's) Tamil 
language using Danda or Double Danda.

I tried to detect these characters in Tamil's Wikipedia texts, but I didn't 
find some.

Albrecht

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Von: Unicode [mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org] Im Auftrag von Richard 
Wordingham via Unicode
Gesendet: Dienstag, 20. Februar 2018 21:13
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Betreff: Re: metric for block coverage

On Tue, 20 Feb 2018 15:13:16 +
"Dreiheller, Albrecht via Unicode"  wrote:

> Could someone please supply an example (web link ...) for usage of
> danda / double danda in Tamil? Thanks, Albrecht

Take your pick from http://www.prapatti.com/slokas/slokasbyname.html .
Do they meet your requirements, or do you perhaps want text in the
Tamil language as opposed to PDFs of Sanskrit in Tamil script?  I found
the likes of my example by googling for 'Tamil Shloka' without quotes.

Richard.

AW: metric for block coverage

[Dreiheller, Albrecht via Unicode]

Could someone please supply an example (web link ...) for usage of danda / 
double danda in Tamil?
Thanks, Albrecht

Von: Unicode [mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org] Im Auftrag von Bobby de Vos 
via Unicode
Gesendet: Montag, 19. Februar 2018 15:58
An: unicode@unicode.org
Betreff: Re: metric for block coverage


On 2018-02-18 12:10, Richard Wordingham via Unicode wrote:

It's only a single bit without a meaning beyond "range is considered

functional".  No "basic coverage" vs "good coverage" vs "full

coverage".



It's worse than that when a script uses characters primarily

associated with another script.  For example, to have any confidence

that my Tai Tham font will be used for U+0E4A THAI CHARACTER MAI

TRI or U+0E4B THAI CHARACTER MAI CHATTAWA placed on U+1A4B TAI THAM

LETTER A, I have to set the Thai bit, even though I only have four Thai

characters in my font.  (The other two are punctuation.)



Indic scripts (other than Devanagari) also use a few characters from another 
block. Specifically, two punctuation characters (from the Devanagari block)

  *   U+0964 DEVANAGARI DANDA
  *   U+0965 DEVANAGARI DOUBLE DANDA
are expected to be used with the non-Devanagari Indic scripts. Looking at the 
fonts Noto Sans Kannada and Noto Sans Tamil, the expected Unicode range bit is 
set for Kannada or Tamil, but not Devanagari, even though those fonts contain 
U+0964 and U+0965.

Bobby
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