From: Christopher Fynn (cfynn@gmx.net)
Date: Wed May 21 2008 - 07:00:15 CDT
mpsuzuki@hiroshima-u.ac.jp wrote:
...
I'm afraid that the requirement
> of coded Siddam script can be different from that of
> other historical Brahmi-derivative scripts (e.g. Chalukya/
> BoxHeaded, Khotanese, Satavahana, Turkestani), because
> there are some archives by non-native Siddham users
> in Chinese and Japanese.
Yes. Although based on an Indic model, the Siddham script seems to have evolved
in in China and later Japan - so it seems unlikely to be a good idea to unify it
with Brahmi.
The main users of the script today are members of a couple of Japanese Buddhist
sects (each with their own tradition of Siddham) - most publications on Siddham
script are also in Japanese.
Perhaps one or both of these groups could support the work involve in
getting Siddham encoded in iso10646 & Unicode... :-)
- Chris
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