O, by the way, I forgot this...
Arjun Aggarwal wrote:
> >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 .
Almost every sentence may become the ultimate truth, if you remove enough
context to make it meaningless.
I can say a lot of tupid things on my own, and I don't need anybody's help
to put more stupid things in my mouth. Thanks.
My sentence above referred to a very specific problem: finding a way of
mapping the ISCII sequence <RA + HALANT + INV> to Unicode.
Here is the sentence in its original context:
Marco Cimarosti wrote:
> Dhrubajyoti Banerjee wrote:
[...]
> > Marco Cimarosti wrote:
[...]
> > >I am talking again about REPHA IN ISOLATION: ISCII has a way of
> > >representing
> > >it, but Unicode does not. This is needed, even only for
> > encoding didactic
> > >texts, and a solution to encode it (with ZWJ, probably)
> > should be found.
> >
> > I think the same way it is done in ISCII would be quite okay.
> > In ISCII you get it by typing the INV character after ra virama.
> > A similiar solution may be provided for, in Unicode, by
> using ZW(N)J.
>
> Yes, there are many easy solutions. The fact is that this are
> worth nothing
> until Unicode officially adopts one of them.
_ Marco
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