RE: Unicode 5.0 decompositions of Balinese vowel signs with tedung

From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Thu Apr 13 2006 - 22:07:26 CST

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    Philippe has found a bug: the minutes of Mtg 103 make clear (103-C10) that the properties for Balinese characters were to be as specified in L2/05-090, and those have canonical decompositions for these multi-part vowels.

    I've checked the UnicodeData.txt properties for Balinese, and the decomposition mappings are the only ones with errors. Here are the corrected entries for the affected characters:

    1B06;BALINESE LETTER AKARA TEDUNG;Lo;0;L;1B05 1B35;;;;N;;aa;;;
    1B08;BALINESE LETTER IKARA TEDUNG;Lo;0;L;1B07 1B35;;;;N;;ii;;;
    1B0A;BALINESE LETTER UKARA TEDUNG;Lo;0;L;1B09 1B35;;;;N;;uu;;;
    1B0C;BALINESE LETTER RA REPA TEDUNG;Lo;0;L;1B0B 1B35;;;;N;;vocalic rr;;;
    1B12;BALINESE LETTER OKARA TEDUNG;Lo;0;L;1B11 1B35;;;;N;;au;;;
    1B3B;BALINESE VOWEL SIGN RA REPA TEDUNG;Mc;0;L;1B3A 1B35;;;;N;;vocalic rr;;;
    1B3D;BALINESE VOWEL SIGN LA LENGA TEDUNG;Mc;0;L;1B3C 1B35;;;;N;;vocalic ll;;;
    1B40;BALINESE VOWEL SIGN TALING TEDUNG;Mc;0;L;1B3E 1B35;;;;N;;o;;;
    1B41;BALINESE VOWEL SIGN TALING REPA TEDUNG;Mc;0;L;1B3F 1B35;;;;N;;au;;;
    1B43;BALINESE VOWEL SIGN PEPET TEDUNG;Mc;0;L;1B42 1B35;;;;N;;;;;

    Peter Constable

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On
    > Behalf Of Philippe Verdy
    > Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 12:15 AM
    > To: unicode@unicode.org
    > Subject: Unicode 5.0 decompositions of Balinese vowel signs with tedung
    >
    > I note that the Unicode 5.0 BETA charts (d1) do not indicate any canonical
    > decomposition for composite vowel signs, like they exist in Devanagari,
    > especially for those that have a right-hand part. Won't that cause
    > difficulties in implementations?
    >
    > Shouldn't they be given canonical equivalents (also reflected also in
    > their balinese names ?) This would also avoid two possible confusable
    > encodings (for IDN or other similar apps), given that they will be
    > rendered the same, and may be understood idetically by people, including
    > when composing texts on keyboards where these complex signs may be entered
    > in a decomposed way, instead ofa single keystroke for the composite ; this
    > would probably simplify the design of Balinese keyboards for those long
    > vowels, given that this would avoid requiring more separate positions only
    > for them, and the fact they could be entered equivalently in a decomposed
    > way using only "short" vowels. An advanced keyboard or an editor may
    > recompose them on the fly using simply the canonical decompositions
    >
    > This concerns the following five vowel signs:
    > * U+1B3B = <U+1B3A ; U+1B35>
    > BALINESE VOWEL SIGN RA REPA TEDUNG (vocalic rr) =
    > BALINESE VOWEL SIGN RA REPA (vocalic r) +
    > BALINESE VOWEL SIGN TEDUNG (aa)
    > * U+1B3D = <U+1B3C ; U+1B35>
    > BALINESE VOWEL SIGN LA LENGA TEDUNG (vocalic ll) =
    > BALINESE VOWEL SIGN LA LENGA (vocalic l) +
    > BALINESE VOWEL SIGN TEDUNG (aa)
    > * U+1B40 = <U+1B3E ; U+1B35>
    > BALINESE VOWEL SIGN TALING TEDUNG (o) =
    > BALINESE VOWEL SIGN TALING (e) +
    > BALINESE VOWEL SIGN TEDUNG (aa)
    > * U+1B41 = <U+1B3E ; U+1B35>
    > BALINESE VOWEL SIGN TALING REPA TEDUNG (au) =
    > BALINESE VOWEL SIGN TALING REPA (ai) +
    > BALINESE VOWEL SIGN TEDUNG (aa)
    > * U+1B43 = <U+1B42 ; U+1B35>
    > BALINESE VOWEL SIGN TALING PEPET TEDUNG (oe) =
    > BALINESE VOWEL SIGN TALING PEPET (ae) +
    > BALINESE VOWEL SIGN TEDUNG (aa)
    >
    > Philippe.
    >
    >
    >



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