Aman Chawla wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]"> [EMAIL PROTECTED]" type="cite">>>This is the kind of thing I am looking for: a 'special composite matra' to write a new sound in Hindi, imported from English.>>I don't believe it exists. But what is your goal? Trying to give an idea of how English is spoken to Hindi readers? I'm not sure a new or very rare character would really >>help.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Well, I don't believe it exists : so you must use some kind of new (I take it) convention to do so. I do not believe it is Unicode's mission to define one, may be you could direct this question to the qalam list.My goal is to accurately transcribe English words such as 'get', 'bed' etc. into Hindi. Just as for Bengali a special character can be used to represent a sound not present in the language, similarly there should be (hopefully) a special character for this English sound.
See http://groups.yahoo.com/group/qalam/.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]">It is used to transcribe a short Dravidian e, I suspect something like U+0B8E TAMIL எ /e/ as opposed to U+0B8F ஏ /e:/, these are close vowels ("make") not open ("bed").Also are there any words in Hindi that use the ऎ DEVANAGARI LETTER SHORT E or its corresponding diacritic mark ॆ? I personally have never come across one. Maybe this diacritic gives the sound of the "e" in bed or led?
Patrick
