From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Fri Apr 01 2005 - 16:01:32 CST
At 22:45 +0100 2005-04-01, Sinnathurai Srivas wrote:
>Code Chart, the front page is not telling the truth.
So?
>It calls Aytham as VisargaL.
Yes, it does.
>It is wrong.
Yes, it is.
>It is technically wrong.
No, it is not. It is a unique string of characters that identifies
that code position.
>It does not do what Visarga migt do!
No, it doesn't.
>It is not Visarga.
No, it isn't. Though it is probably derived from the Tamil Grantha visarga.
>It breaks Unicode implementations, because of it's untru descriptive name.
No, it doesn't.
>It is an insult to a suffering minority language.
No, it isn't. And Tamil is not a minority language. It has 74,000,000
speakers, according to the Ethnologue. Hungarian, by comparison, has
14,500.000 speakers.
Get a grip.
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