From: James Kass (jameskass@att.net)
Date: Sat Jun 25 2005 - 18:55:08 CDT
Michael Everson wrote,
> The Unicode encoding is based on ISCII, not transliteration.
> Brahmic scripts all have the same structure, Tamil included, though
> Tamil lost some of the original Brahmic letters.
> The encoding is based on ISCII, not transliteration.
If Unicode is based on ISCII and ISCII is based on transliteration, then
Unicode is transliteration-based with respect to Indic script encoding.
Let's take Srivas' point on this one and move on, please.
> The encoding is what it is and cannot and will not be changed, ...
Absolutely.
Best regards,
James Kass
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