Re: [Indic-computing-devel] [review-request] Indic computing handbook: devanagari

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> http://www.geocities.com/alkuma/devanagari/en/index.html

A nice start.

> This is the first draft and very very rough. 

Sure.

> Upto 3 consonants we have; 20+37x20+37x37x20+37x37x37x20

Not all of these consonant combinations would be in use
though ...

> Devanagari uses decimal digits viz 0 thru 9

I was under the impression that the "hindi" numerals were 
distinct from the "Roman" digits 0..9 ?  Maybe we can distinguish
between "common use" and the "canonical" forms.

> [Add sound file for pronunciation]

I initially thought about adding IPA symbols (international
phonetic alphabet) against each indic character displayed in
the handbook.  However, on reflection, I came to the conclusion
that this would be (a) misleading: because pronounciation 
varies widely even among 'native' speakers and (b) also probably
unnecessary -- the way humans pronounce a given word or 
character is not relevant to a computer handling text.

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Joseph Koshy, FreeBSD Developer, http://people.freebsd.org/~jkoshy/
Founder/Manager/Programmer/Peon, The Indic-Computing Project
                                 http://indic-computing.sf.net

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