Introduction to Indic Scripts
Intended Audience: |
Managers, Marketers, Software Engineers, Systems Analysts, Font
Designers, Content Developers, Graphic Designers |
Session Level: |
Beginner, Intermediate |
This tutorial will use examples to provide you with an in-depth
understanding of the characteristics of Indic scripts. It will also
briefly describe some of the practical issues that should be borne
in mind for Unicode-based implementation of these scripts. Scripts
covered include Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya,
Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam.
Outline:
IntroductionHistorical background
Sounds of indic scripts Characteristic script featuresDirection & positioning
Consonants & inherent vowels
Vowel signs
Independent vowels
Consonant clusters
Nasalisation
The visarga
Numbers Implementation notesCharacter sets
Combining characters
Variant glyph forms
While the tutorial is perfectly accessible to beginners, it has
also attracted very good reviews from people at an intermediate and
advanced level, due to the breadth of scripts discussed. No prior
knowledge is needed. |