> Look -- Unicode is an international standard. Is that the reason why it simply copied unknown number of Greek scripts and renamed it to Latin script to build separate Latin script?
So why don't you implement same code for Assamese and Bengalese? > I feel bad when my compatriots don't even try to understand > the principles of an international technology before complaining about it. What are the principles that allow you two different thinks? Such as one for Greek script and Latin script the other for Assamese and Bengalese. > Technical issues of stability dictate that the name cannot be > hereafter changed. Is that the reason why you go maul others history/nomenclature? > Assamese is at place *fifty-four* with speaker > population of 16.8 million, less than *one-tenth* of that of Bengali. So your so called international institute marginalizes weaker sections in India - that is what you mean don't you? Do you know Republic of India Constitution protects Assamese language and is State Language of Assam? None from Assam/Assamese population had asked your so called international organization to encode - why did you put your hands on their stuff? Did any of them take your / your international organization's meal away at any point? The script-set is not Bengali, it is Nagari used in Eastern zone. To be very specific the Kamarupa kingdom used those. Bengalese evolved during British India. Using Bengali is as good as using English for Latin. Mark Davis took bribed from Bengalese, Shriramana has a share in it too. > Be realistic and understand in what world you are living in. You are talking about your dark-world. Or are you talking about any scholarly world? How can you go maul on historical facts and replace with rubbish? Tulasi From: Shriramana Sharma <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 3:39 AM Subject: Re: continue: Glaring Mistake in nomenclature To: [email protected] On 09/14/2011 12:25 PM, delex r wrote: > I think now naming the script as “ Bengali” that too by stealing two > unique letters from the Assamese alphabet list and coloring them > with Bengali hue is part of that notorious linguistic invasion. > Look -- Unicode is an international standard. English is the international language of science and technology, whether you like it or not. And as Michael Everson as pointed out, the script is more commonly known in the English language as the Bengali script. That is hence the representative name that was chosen for the script in the Unicode standard. Technical issues of stability dictate that the name cannot be hereafter changed. Please read the publicly available Unicode Standard document and understand it before complaining further. Finished. And the reasons for the script to be better known as the Bengali script rather than Assamese are obvious. As per records ( http://www.ethnologue.com/ethno_docs/distribution.asp?by=size), Bengali is the *fifth* most widely spoken language in the world with a speaker population of 181 million (closely following Hindi with 182). Assamese is at place *fifty-four* with speaker population of 16.8 million, less than *one-tenth* of that of Bengali. It is even behind Chattisgarhi language with 17.5 million speakers, and the separate state of Chattisgarh was only even formed recently. Given this, you should not expect special treatment for the name "Assamese". Be realistic and understand in what world you are living in. It is but natural that in the absence of a pre-agreed name for a script for other reasons (such as the Latin script), a script is better internationally recognized by the language that it is more (in terms of sheer volume) used for. I feel bad when my compatriots don't even try to understand the principles of an international technology before complaining about it. Our great Indian intellectual tradition is not reflected in these results of putting emotion above reason. -- Shriramana Sharma
