Doug, Kenneth, All, I', somewhat confused. I assume I'm lacking a lot of background, but I can't interpolate successfully between your answers:
"Doug Ewell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Unicode character names attempt to be (a) unique and (b) reasonably > mnemonic. Anything beyond that is a bonus. They expressly do *not* > represent any form of transliteration or transcription scheme. Kenneth Whistler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The 10646 naming conventions, which are stuck with A-Z for > transliteration, generally use doubled letters to indicate > retroflex consonants, particular for Indic languages. When > a third distinction needs to be made, as for Tamil, the > third name occasionally just gets a tripled letter, as is > the case for U+0BA9. Are UNICODE character names transliterations? Yes, No, Sometimes, Not Officially? Regards, Peter Jacobi -- NEU F�R ALLE - GMX MediaCenter - f�r Fotos, Musik, Dateien... Fotoalbum, File Sharing, MMS, Multimedia-Gru�, GMX FotoService Jetzt kostenlos anmelden unter http://www.gmx.net +++ GMX - die erste Adresse f�r Mail, Message, More! +++
