Re: Tamil Collation vs Transliteration/Transcription Enc

From: James Kass (jameskass@att.net)
Date: Sat Jun 25 2005 - 18:55:08 CDT

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    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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