Re: ASSAMESE AND BENGALI CONTROVERSY IN UNICODE STANDARD ::::: SOLUTIONS

Hi Michael,

On Sun, 2012-07-08 at 12:39 +0100, Michael Everson wrote:
> On 8 Jul 2012, at 11:44, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
>
> > @Unicode veterans: Given that almost the entire Sinhala block has
> informative aliases giving alternate names for the characters,
>
> That is only because when Sinhala was being encoded, the Sri Lanka NB
> insisted on using names which are not useful to anyone but speakers of
> Sinhala.

Are you complaining about the inclusion of traditional native Sinhala
terms for the letters? e.g. From the code chart:
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0D9A ක SINHALA LETTER ALPAPRAANA KAYANNA
= sinhala letter ka

0D9B ඛ SINHALA LETTER MAHAAPRAANA KAYANNA
= sinhala letter kha
----------------------------

The transliterated form appears there too

cya,
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Received on Mon Jul 09 2012 - 08:37:18 CDT