For those who are interested in what is behind this message, a little background...
Sinnathurai Srivas is a member of INFITT's WG02 (Working Group 02, Unicode Tamil) who has been long advocating changes to Unicode Tamil that would be done in a "linear" manner that would remove the requirement of complex rendering. It would of course require many changes to rendering rules and character properties. At this point you might wonder how it would be possible to do this without breaking compatibility -- well, no need to wondeer, it would not be possible. Compatibility would have to be sacrificed. Several members of the committee pointed out that these reforms would not be possible without invalidating existing implementations. After some discussion, the chairman noted that he saw no way that such a proposal could actually be accomplished. The committee let the matter drop after this, I know am I not the only one thought that was the end of it -- until this very post was sent out today to at least a half dozen lists. MichKa Michael Kaplan Trigeminal Software, Inc. -- http://www.trigeminal.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sinnathurai Srivas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 6:22 PM Subject: Tamil Text Messaging in Mobile Phones > > http://www.gbizg.com/tamil/Unicode/Tamil_Text_Messaging.htm > > see the above for a sample of typical modern Tamil designed for mobile > texting without rendering support. > > ============================ > A typical Product; > > http://sms.gt.com.ua/ > > Text messaging in Tamil on Mobile phones. Would they only work with my > proposed reformed Tamil characters? > > see http://www.geocities.com/avarangal > for using ancient Tamil writing logic and reforming current alphabets > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com > > >
