Re: Devanagari composing help needed

From: Asmus Freytag (asmusf@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Thu Jun 07 2007 - 20:13:51 CDT

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    On 6/7/2007 5:47 PM, Peter Constable wrote:
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    > From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]
    > On Behalf Of John Hudson
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    >
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    > > But the text you linked to at
    > http://www.in-nomine.org/~asmodai/hindi.txt is different:
    >
    > >
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    > > 2008 अन्तरराष्ट्रीय मनोवैज्ञानिकी विचार विनिमय सम्मेलनमें आप का स्‍वागत है
    >
    > >
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    > > not only in the encoding of the troublesome conjunct in the first
    > word, but also
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    > > The second of these text strings renders correctly on my system if I
    > use a different
    >
    > > Devanagari font. The Windows Mangal font displays it in a way that
    > is decipherable but
    >
    > > ugly, with the Ra resolving to a full form with halant rather than
    > forming a rakar.
    >
    >
    >
    > That’s not what I see on Vista:
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    > I’m not sure about XP.
    >
    Show's a visible halant at the beginning of the last (long) word in the
    sample.
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    >
    >
    >
    >
    > Peter
    >

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