Sinnathurai Srivas <avarangal at hotmail dot com> wrote: > 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.
"Rendering" is the process of mapping character codes to displayable glyphs on a screen or printer. Rendering support is always required, even for English. You probably mean "without complex rendering support," e.g. contextual glyph forms and glyph reordering. > Text messaging in Tamil on Mobile phones. Would they only work with my > proposed reformed Tamil characters? Unicode is not the place to propose reforms in scripts or orthography. Your proposed characters must first achieve popular usage before they will be encoded. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California
