From: N. Ganesan (naa.ganesan@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Apr 04 2006 - 13:07:56 CST
Disunifying Dandas in Indian scripts
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Here is the proposal to encode Kaithi script
very closely related to Devanagari script.
Kaithi was widely used before Devanagari script
was introduced wholesale in north India
after India's independence.
Even Kaithi script is seeking to disunify
daNDas, see Fig. 17 in pg. 33:
http://staff.washington.edu/apandey/kaithi.pdf
Is Bengali dari close to Kaithi than Devanagari?
or, is it close to Oriya dandas?
Of course, Kannada, Tamil examples are very different
from Devanagari dandas.
A historic Indian script, Siddham has different
daNDa shapes also:
http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso10646/pdf/siddham.pdf
Pl. take a look at Oriya daNDas
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/digbooks/images/DSAL002_1985/DSAL002_1985_29.gif
They are very short, and are quite different from Devanagari script's.
N. Ganesan
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