There is very little on that page that is not explained up at: http://www.unicode.org/unicode/faq/indic.html
The site you found is basically wrong. MichKa Michael Kaplan Trigeminal Software, Inc. -- http://www.trigeminal.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arijit Upadhyay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Unicode Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2002 10:19 PM Subject: Unicode - Bengali > I chanced on visit this site - http://www.akshor.com, nicely, designed, > 'good quality' - hacked bengali fonts but seeingly a very personal way in > dealing with Unicode -Bengali. I found some comments which did not go with > my understanding of unicode, such as unicode's responsibility to assign > spaces fo conjunct and variant characters. Would somebody please give some > comments on these so that proper ideas & facts are known. > > 1) --"Unicode is the only way of globalization. This is true of Bengali, as > well. Bengali is added in Unicode release 2.0 by Unicode Consortium for the > process of internationalization. But only our (Bengali) base characters are > added in this release. All of combined characters are missing here." > > --"Current Unicode standard must be corrected and all necessary combined > characters must be assigned-added in Unicode. Otherwise this (current > Unicode standard of Bengali) is useless to us. We hope Unicode Consortium > will look into this mater and add all necessary (combined) characters and > symbols in the next earlier release. It will be highly appreciated if they > finished this job respectively." > > - http://www.akshor.com/project1.html > > 2) -- "Unicode Consortium assigned 0980-09FF for Bengali (see previous > page). But this is not enough to saperate all our characters. Thats why we > used the Private Used Area (E100-E4FF) of Unicode for our project to assign > & saperate all our characters (excluded in UCS) including extended > characters/glyps and symbols. " > > - http://www.akshor.com/project2.html > > regards > Arijit Upadhyay > > >
