Re: benefits of unicode

From: Edward Cherlin (edward.cherlin.sy.67@aya.yale.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 18 2001 - 15:35:31 EDT


At 9:44 AM +0100 4/18/01, Michael Everson wrote:
>At 11:34 -0700 2001-04-17, Edward Cherlin wrote:
>
>>What about Pali written in any of Sinhala, Thai, Burmese,
>>Devanagari, and extended Latin scripts? I know that there is a
>>problem for Sanskrit written in Tibetan and other Asian scripts.
>
>What is the question?
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Does Pali written in any of these scripts require a combination of
characters not found together in any code page for that script? There
are complete editions of the Pali Tipitaka in each script.

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Edward Cherlin Generalist "A knot!" exclaimed Alice. "Oh, do let me help to undo it." Alice in Wonderland



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