Dhrubajyoti Banerjee <dhrub@hotmail.com> wrote:
[quoting Akshor]
> I thing we need not be restrained by these so-called 'standards'.
Because,
> they can't and will not serve our need (Bengali) in my humble view.
Thats
> why we toke this project at our hand and working to impliment a
universal
> input method.."
They can implement any input method they like. Having discrete keys for
consonants and half-forms does not mean those forms have to be encoded
separately.
> In fact they have put a huge number of "conjunct characters" in the
Private
> Use Area. Its a pity because it means that so many people still do not
even
> understand the difference between characters and glyphs.
>
> I hope Unicode proliferates fast in these areas so people can
understand it
> and use it without wasting time in such activities as reinventing the
wheel.
What a relief to hear someone within the Indic community who actually
understands the character-glyph model. You probably know that many,
many users of Indic scripts believe Unicode is "incomplete" or
"inadequate" without separately encoded conjuncts and glyph variants.
Please do your best to share your knowledge!
BTW, your post was anything but "offtopic."
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
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