Arjun Aggarwal wrote,
>
> I just cannot see how a half character can be formed by adding a halant
> after full letters.It does not lead to a visible half letter. It is the
> visible half letter that we need here.
The Hindi "What is Unicode?" page on the Unicode web site is properly
encoded Devanagari. Depending on your operating system and installed
fonts, it is possible to see half letters and conjuncts on your screen.
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/translations/hindi.html
The substitution of correct letter forms depends on support from
the operating system. Ideally, this substitution is invisible to the
user. Correct display is obviously very important, so is correct
encoding.
The translation of the Hindi "What is Unicode" page was done by
eTranslate. Perhaps as your understanding of Unicode grows, you
might volunteer to improve the Hindi page for the Unicode
Consortium, if any improvement to the translation is needed.
I am sending a picture of part of the Hindi What is Unicode page to
you separately, so you can see how it appears on this system. Even
in the Outlook Express e-mail program, the title ( यूनिकोड क्या है? )
shows a half letter.
There is an article describing the OpenType shaping requirements by
John Hudson at:
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/developers/opentype/default.htm
This article describes the procedures involved.
> >
> > Unicode: ka + halant + ZWJ
> > ISCII: ka + halant + INV
> > result: half ka glyph
>
> Would somebody tell me what a ZWJ control is and how to include it in
> documents i create for Unicode compliant softwares.
>
The ZWJ is a format/control character. ZWJ means Zero-Width Joiner.
It is U+200D (decimal 8205). According to the Unicode specification, it
may be used as Marco Cimarosti indicated above, to display an isolated
half form. On my system, this does not work, however.
Best regards,
James Kass.
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