On 28/03/2014, Ed Trager <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Chris,
> Besides the scripts you mention, there is also Tai Tham as Richard > mentioned Several un-encoded Mon and Shan scripts too - as well as other Indic scripts. > > In theory, writing a utility to convert Pali written in any of those > scripts to any one of the other scripts should not be too difficult but ... > * Modern phonetically-based Lao lacks some of the traditional letters that > are still preserved in Thai and other scripts. Are there old Lao characters (once) used for writing Pāḷi? Even if there is not a 1 to 1 correspondence - as long as there is consistency in the way Pāḷi is written in each script - and you know you are dealing with Pāḷi and not another language written in that script, it should be possible. > * At least as far as Tai Tham goes, it seems that Tai Tham spelling is not > consistent with Central Thai spelling when it comes to Sanskrit and > Pali-derived words ... I don't really know much about this -- just my own > limited observations. Probably somebody else here like Richard Wordingham > or Martin Hosken knows a lot more about this than I do ... A problem might be if scribal errors have crept in over the centuries and some of these misspellings have become accepted in one script or another. I think there is work going on to make a very carefully edited critical edition of the Pāḷi Canon - it would be useful to be able to convert and print this out in the scripts used in the different countries where Theravāda Buddhism is popular. > ... so maybe in reality it is not so simple to do? > > - Ed > > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Christopher Fynn > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On 27/03/2014, Richard BUDELBERGER <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > And now, Pali. Not Thai in Pali script, but Pali in Thai script… >> >> There is no standard script for Pāḷi - It is often written in >> Devanagri, Sinhala, Myanmar, Thai, Lao, Khmer, Latin, and several >> other scripts. >> >> I do think there is quite a need for a utility to convert Pāḷi written >> in any one of these scripts to any of the others, >> >> - Chris _______________________________________________ Unicode mailing list [email protected] http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode
