At 23:03 +0530 2005-02-25, Arjun Aggarwal wrote:
>This time i will raise the old issue with a new perspective and with
>more practicality. The Unicode encoding is meant to help people
>around the world to use characters in their own language besides
>English.
Yes, of course it is.
>But, unfortunately this is not the case for Hindi, the third largest
>spoken language of the world (spoken in around 10 countries). This
>is so because the Unicode encoding for the Devnagari script has
>failed to do just this.
This isn't true, Arjun. Saying that it has failed does not mean that
it has failed.
You have, it seems, failed to understand the elegance of the Unicode
encoding model, which is not a glyph-based encoding.
-- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
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