To whom it may concern, I writing because I would to know if someone can help with certain Sanskrit/Pali characters in roman scripts. This to clarify how to be proceed in setting up a Sanskrit/Pali -- English dictionary.
Most characters are simple, like vowels with macrons, or some letters that have either a dot below or above. The characters that are confusing are the ones with aspirated stops, namely the following: kh, gh, ch, th, th with dot below, dh, dh with dot below, ph and bh. For example, if I understand correctly, in the word dharma, the letters "dha" actually represent one character. Is their a unicode equivalent to "dha"? The reason I ask is that this would dramatically simplify the sorting of words in the Pali/Sanskrit alphabetical order if each "letter" in Pali/Sanskrit was represented by one unicode character. I hope this makes sense, as I am new to unicode and linguistics. Thank you, Rene Hache ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
