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

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

On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 01:09:13 -0700 (PDT)
Krishnamurthy Nagarajan <kn...@ya...> wrote:

> 
> --- Guntupalli Karunakar <kar...@fr...>
> wrote:
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> Well, there isn't paucity of code points for just 3
> more characters. TRA is surely a conjunct (though 
> it probably is mentioned as a base char. in some old
> texts), GNA also is. However, KSHA is rather unique
> and deserves to be identified as a base character, IMO
> 
 My point is if you put three then there will be demand to put others
too.. the DA , RA, TA forms etc to start with, so better not put any.
& its an encoding system being defined not a font.
 There are some official & linguistic documents which can give more
info. maybe ppl in delhi can dig them out from dept of official langs,
central hindi directorate or any univ. library (the easiest).

Regards,
Karunakar

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