Re: Indic editing (was: RE: The real solution)

From: Arjun Aggarwal (mrasool@sancharnet.in)
Date: Sun Dec 02 2001 - 09:07:12 EST


Hi Everybody

The statement by Mr. John Hudson that the system of "the fact that phonetic
keyboarding, while the norm for the Indian publishing and typesetting
industries, was not the norm for typewriters " is not entirely correct.
It was not the norm earlier but is the current norm for many years now.

>Moreover, the concept of <la = half la + danda> may be natural for people
>who are used to typewriters and typography. Which is, some of the people
>who are more likely to switch to computers.

I fully agree with Mr. Marco Cimarosti in this regard.

This is the point to which i really wanted everybody to focus on i.e. the
problem of encoding as well as display .

>Yes, there are many easy solutions. The fact is that this are worth nothing
>until Unicode officially adopts one of them.

This is the ultimate truth and this was the main point with which i
initiated this dicussion .

With Regards
Arjun Aggarwal
mrasool@sancharnet.in



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