From: sankarshan <fos...@gm...> - 2012-04-09 13:03:32
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2012/4/9 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) <ra...@li...>: > The Bangla script can also be used for writing other languages. One of > the languages that may be be written using this script is Sanskrit. > Unlike the Bangla language, all the characters needed for writing other > languages are not defined in the Unicode standard. Specifically, the > "pet-kata-Ba" ("Ba" with a line through its area) -- used to denote "Va" > -- which is needed for writing Sanskrit, is not available in the Unicode > Bangla character set. And, if you look at the page of Nathaniel Halhead's book which Runa pointed out to, a glyph of the same kind was used to represent 'ra' - the issue is thus compounded by the need to make a glyph which had a different function in Bengali to behave in a new way, so as to enable the Bengali script to be used for writing Sanskrit. Now, this may or may not be a good thing to do. However, the path towards this is based on: - providing some scans (Karunakar has pointed to the links) of documents - providing details about these documents viz. if they are books - the publishers, publication date etc - providing details about whether there are secondary sources - propose this to the UTC (although whether this glyph would be acceptable in Bengali is another issue) - participate in the discussion and see how it goes /sankarshan -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog> |