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

[Pavanaja U B <pav...@no...>]

I fully agree with Karunakar.

-Pavanaja

> 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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