Re: [Indic-computing-users] Project -new programming langauge

[Keyur S. <key...@ya...>]

Hi,

The Unicode coverage of Indian scripts clearly lacks phonetic signs that
were used in ancient literature such as four Vedas (Rigveda, Saamveda,
Atharvaveda, Yajurveda). Extended Latin range in Unicode covers some
phonetic symbols in Latin script. Other phonetic symbols are encoded in IPA
area which covers some of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) in
Unicode [U+250 - U+2AF]. But again these symbols are based on Latin script.
There is a need to include all symbols (like pitch, stress, time, etc.)
needed for Indian phonetic alphabets because even visual appearance of
these symbols are not there in Unicode as can be seen in ancient
literature. Since it is clear that all these symbols cannot be included in
current Unicode range for Indian script, separate space should be provided
for it in Unicode.

- Keyur


--- "Dr. U.B. Pavanaja" <pav...@vi...> wrote:
> Below is a posting from the VOLT message board.
> -Pavanaja
> 
> Dear sir , 
> I am Dr.B.V.Venkata Krishna Sastry, Faculty at Hindu University of
> America. 
> I am a Langauge technologist, working on the design of a 'new programming
> langauge' 
> having integrated features of Sound-script-langauge' inbult at the
> 'Font'level. 
> The exiting standards of ASCII /UNICODE do not handle the 'sound' issue;
> And the 
> office productivity softwares are focussed mainly on character based
> processing. 
> The issue is linked to different technical groups- a) The font developers
> have to provide 
> some way of integrating/ attribute building for the element of sound and
> langauge ; 
> which at present is handled outside the font by defining the same in to a
> font-langauge 
> family . b) Once this is made , the OS and the applications should be
> able to read this 
> 'FONT' properly and send the outputs/instructions properly to the display
> -processing 
> and operating devices . I am not able to get one agency where i can
> address this issue 
> for an intneded solution of 'True multilingual notepad and the text
> reader'. The different 
> groups of technologies are working in 'segments'making the solution a
> complex one. 
> This issue is pursued by me as a 'Content developer who has developed
> Interactive 
> Multimedia CD-ROM's with Cultural content -like BhagavadGita ,Gods of
> India' and the 
> formats of the 'Digital books for Devanagari Sanskrit studies'. 
> I have noticed that the Micosoft Project areas related to - WHO, Speech
> recognition, 
> voice Data base and such areas do visualize such issues. The other areas
> where this 
> approach provides a solution is Intelligent systems, SpokenLangague
> Interface and the 
> like. 
> NOTE:- Please copy your message response to - sastry_bvk@hindu-
> university.edu also for convenince . 
> Could you please let me know the group to whom this issue needs to be
> addressed pl? 
> -----------------------------------------------------
> Dr. U.B. Pavanaja
> Editor, Vishva Kannada
> World's first Internet magazine in Kannada
> http://www.vishvakannada.com/
> 
> Note: I don't worry about pselling mixtakes
> 
> 
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