Dear James Kass,
For a pronounciation Dictionary, a set of diacritics that is in experiment
need to be included
and
when this additional (diacritics) occur in text, OS should not decide some
thing is wrong with grammar and substitue with dotted circles or assumes the
font is faulty and replaces with another font which does not know anything
about this additional diacritics used.
Sinnathurai Srivas
>From: "James Kass" <jameskass@worldnet.att.net>
>To: "Unicode List" <unicode@unicode.org>
>CC: "Sinnathurai Srivas" <avarangal@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: Tamil Text Messaging in Mobile Phones
>Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 06:04:31 -0700
>
>
>More about the rôle of Uniscribe (Microsoft's Unicode engine) can
>be found at
>http://www.microsoft.com/typography/developers/uniscribe/default.htm
>
>A reason that Unicode text processing is considered necessary at
>the OS level is that, if it were not present in the form of a
>shared system, each and every program which needed to handle
>Unicode text would have to contain too much duplicated information.
>
>A Tamil pronouncing dictionary would probably be outside the
>realm of Unicode to endorse or sponsor.
>
>But, at the risk of straying off-topic, what changes are needed in
>Unicode before publishing such a dictionary would be possible?
>
>Best regards,
>
>James Kass.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Sinnathurai Srivas" <avarangal@hotmail.com>
>To: <Peter_Constable@sil.org>; <unicode@unicode.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 3:13 AM
>Subject: Re: Tamil Text Messaging in Mobile Phones
>
>
> > OS and Uniscribe. This still requires discussion.
> >
> > OS should not be allowed to make Language a static thing of the past.
> > At present the OS asumes that it understands the Grammar and prevents
> > modifications and some times make mistakes in Grammar too.
> >
> > "OS should not deal with Grammar" This should be made policy for all
> > languages concerned. Grammar on how to write, spelling ristrictions, and
> > similar impediments should not be built into OS.
> > I guess collation need to be part of OS. I do not have a view on hoe
> > collation should be treated. May be some experts on this topic shed some
> > light.
> >
> > Proposing changes to Unicode:
> > A Typical scenario.
> > I need to publish a "Pronouciation Dictionary" dictionary. There is a
>small
> > number of people using this Dictionary at present, which I made using
>8bit
> > encoding. There are no dictionaries that can be refered for learning
> > pronounciation. The major Institutions does not see a need for Tamil
> > Pronounciation dictionary yet. But as the migration of people has become
>so
> > significant, this need have become intense. But, in countries where
>Tamil is
> > used in regular basis ther is no need. They know what they are reading.
>But
> > Tamil diaspora in theire millions scattered all over the world is in
>dire
> > need.
> >
> > Would it be the duty of Unicode Consortium to lend a hand (be it
> > experimental) or should this be approved by major Institutions.
> >
> > Sinnathurai Srivas
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
> > >To: unicode@unicode.org
> > >Subject: Re: Tamil Text Messaging in Mobile Phones
> > >Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 14:23:06 -0500
> > >
> > >
> > >On 07/29/2002 10:41:47 AM "Doug Ewell" wrote:
> > >
> > > >I do want to emphasize, in parting, that you will need to ensure your
> > > >reform is successful (i.e. has been officially approved by
>governmental
> > > >or scholarly bodies, or has at least achieved some popular usage)
> > > >*before* proposing changes to Unicode.
> > >
> > >And possibly also before requesting changes in related technologies
>that
> > >would be affected (e.g. Uniscribe or other OT-related rendering
>engines).
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >- Peter
> > >
> > >
> >
> >---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >Peter Constable
> > >
> > >Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International
> > >7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA
> > >Tel: +1 972 708 7485
> > >E-mail: <peter_constable@sil.org>
> >
> >
> >
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