RE: Transcoding Tamil in the presence of markup

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Sun Dec 07 2003 - 07:57:03 EST

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    At 13:18 +0100 2003-12-07, Peter Jacobi wrote:

    >This is the core problem. Legacy Tamil encodings and use see the
    >vowel signs as individual characters. Switching to ISCII or Unicode
    >will break this.

    Oh well. Sometimes data can't be migrated reversibly. Think of the
    thousand years that Unicode *will* be used, rather than the little
    bit of data generated in the last twenty years. 

    -- 
Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com

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