RE: Devanagari

From: Vipul Garg (vipul.garg@mindaxis.com)
Date: Tue Dec 03 2002 - 22:47:53 EST

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    I came across 'Where is my character?' page and read that there is a
    combination of keystrokes to represent the Indic half forms, such as KA
    and Halant combines to form half KA. Also there is a list of other
    letter representation through combination of Devanagari letters.

    Please email me the list for my ready reference.

    Best Regards,

    Vipul Garg

    Mind Axis (I) Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
    Phone: +91 (22) 55994860 / 61
    -----Original Message-----
    From: John Cowan [mailto:jcowan@reutershealth.com]
    Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 5:33 PM
    To: vipul.garg@mindaxis.com
    Cc: unicode@unicode.org
    Subject: Re: Devanagari

    Vipul Garg scripsit:

    > I have downloaded your font chart for Devanagari, which is in the
    range
    > from 0900 to 097F. I have also installed the Arial Unicode font
    supplied
    > by Microsoft office XP suite. I found that not all characters are
    > available for Devanagari. For example letters such as Aadha KA, Aadha
    > KHA, Aadha GA etc. are not available.

    This is not a Unicode problem.

    Arial Unicode is not designed to handle Indic scripts; it does not
    contain the necessary ligatures and half forms. You need to use a
    more suitable font. 

    -- 
John Cowan   <jcowan@reutershealth.com>   http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
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came by, looked over my shoulder and said 'Oh, that happens to me too.
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