Re: Hindi characters for transcribing the sound "e"

[Aman Chawla]

 Actually, I am not talking about the sound in hay or bake or the Hindi words for dirt or harmony. Rather, the sound in bed, red, dead, led, fed, said, etc. ----- Original Message ----- From: Patrick Andries To: Aman Chawla Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 10:24 PM Subject: Re: Hindi characters for transcribing the sound "e" Aman Chawla a écrit : [EMAIL PROTECTED] type="cite"> With reference to the FAQ: http://www.unicode.org/unicode/faq/indic.html#13 , I would like to know what are the Hindi characters used to transcribe the sound "e" (as in English "bet", "bed", "red" etc.) in Unicode. Thanks English vowels, I'm not too sure about them. Let's see, are you speak of the sound "e" (the open mid-front unrounded vowel) as in Hindi  /mƐl/ ("dirt" according to my sources) and not /mel/ ("harmony") ? I believe it is often translitterated "ai" and could be transcribed back in Hindi with  ऐ or ै (U+0910, U+0948 as a diacritic) although it is originally a diphtong. The English closed mid-front unrounded vowel /e/ (as in hay or bake) would be transcribe with a U+090E ऎ. Patrick Andries