Re: Hindi characters for transcribing the sound "e"

From: Aman Chawla (creativezeal@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Jan 14 2002 - 17:14:16 EST

The Demo doesn't seem to be particularly reliable. For instance, the following English words, all have the same vowel sound: red, said, dead, led, shed, fed. However, the Demo gave the following Latin-Devanagari outputs: रॆद् , सैद् , दॆअद् , लॆद् , शॆद् , फ़ॆद्

First of all the ending 'd' sound in all the English words is ड् and not द् as given by the demo. Secondly, though 'said' and 'red' have the same vowel sound (not character, but sound), the demo gave two different Hindi diacritics. Hindi is phonetic and so each diacritic has one and only one sound.

I am looking for transscription (by sound) of the "e" sound in bed, red, get etc. into a Hindi character.
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Mark Davis
  To: Aman Chawla ; Unicode
  Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 9:04 PM
  Subject: Re: Hindi characters for transcribing the sound "e"

  There are two different processes: transliteration (which is by letter) and transscription (which is by sound).

  If transliteration is what you mean, I just checked with the ICU online demo at http://oss.software.ibm.com/cgi-bin/icu/tr, and "e" is transliterated as U+090E "ऎ" DEVANAGARI LETTER SHORT E*. ICU transliteration for Devanagari is based on ISCII (for the exact composition, see the last section of http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/userguide/Transliteration.html, called "Script Transliteration Sources".

  Mark

  * I use the demo fairly often simply to get hex converted to and from characters, and characters converted to and from names.

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    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Aman Chawla
    To: Unicode
    Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 05:48
    Subject: Hindi characters for transcribing the sound "e"

    With reference to the FAQ: http://www.unicode.org/unicode/faq/indic.html#13, I would like to know what are the Hindi characters used to transcribe the sound "e" (as in English "bet", "bed", "red" etc.) in Unicode.
    Thanks

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