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

[Guntupalli K. <kar...@fr...>]

On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 02:06:12 -0600
alo...@so... wrote:

> Krishnamurthy Nagarajan writes: 
> 
> > 
> > Well, one may 'combine' glyphs to create 'ksha' but it
> > stands on its own as a consonant (it has its own
> > 'gunintha' in Kannada and Telugu and Hindi) and its
> 
> What's a gunintha? 

Its the barakhadi in devanagari ( consonant with all vowel signs
applied )
> 
> > pronunciation can't be systhesised from say 'ka' and
> > 'sha'. So, it has to be a separate consonant. For
> 
> Actually, it can be. The same goes for thra/tra and gya/jna/gna.
> Lexically there is absolutely no difference between half ka + shha
> and the ksha we are talking about. 
> 
going by that logic aspirated consonants (KHA, GHA, TTHA etc) are to
be composed of the pure consonant + HA sound.
 I think the idea of keeping conjuncts (including KSHA, TRA, JNA) out
of encoding is to minimise, script symbols in view of the limited
space avaialble for encoding (128 code or less code points). If there
were 1000  or more code points available then defnitely KSHA & co
would have been included as characters or akhands.

Regards,
Karunakar

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