There is very little on that page that is not explained up at:
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/faq/indic.html
The site you found is basically wrong.
MichKa
Michael Kaplan
Trigeminal Software, Inc. -- http://www.trigeminal.com/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Arijit Upadhyay" <arijit@ganashakti.co.in>
To: "Unicode Mailing List" <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2002 10:19 PM
Subject: Unicode - Bengali
> I chanced on visit this site - http://www.akshor.com, nicely, designed,
> 'good quality' - hacked bengali fonts but seeingly a very personal way in
> dealing with Unicode -Bengali. I found some comments which did not go with
> my understanding of unicode, such as unicode's responsibility to assign
> spaces fo conjunct and variant characters. Would somebody please give some
> comments on these so that proper ideas & facts are known.
>
> 1) --"Unicode is the only way of globalization. This is true of Bengali,
as
> well. Bengali is added in Unicode release 2.0 by Unicode Consortium for
the
> process of internationalization. But only our (Bengali) base characters
are
> added in this release. All of combined characters are missing here."
>
> --"Current Unicode standard must be corrected and all necessary combined
> characters must be assigned-added in Unicode. Otherwise this (current
> Unicode standard of Bengali) is useless to us. We hope Unicode Consortium
> will look into this mater and add all necessary (combined) characters and
> symbols in the next earlier release. It will be highly appreciated if they
> finished this job respectively."
>
> - http://www.akshor.com/project1.html
>
> 2) -- "Unicode Consortium assigned 0980-09FF for Bengali (see previous
> page). But this is not enough to saperate all our characters. Thats why we
> used the Private Used Area (E100-E4FF) of Unicode for our project to
assign
> & saperate all our characters (excluded in UCS) including extended
> characters/glyps and symbols. "
>
> - http://www.akshor.com/project2.html
>
> regards
> Arijit Upadhyay
>
>
>
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