Devanagri: - Vedic characters?

From: Christopher John Fynn (cfynn@dircon.co.uk)
Date: Thu Nov 25 1999 - 06:07:30 EST


In the Devanagri block does Unicode 3.0 now include "the Extended
Characters for Vedic" as listed in Annex G of Indian Standard
IS 13194 : 1991 (ISCII)?

 In that standard these characters are named as follows:
Visarga1, Filler, Yajurvedic Anusvara1, Yajurvedic Anusvara2, Shukla
Yajurvedic Anusvara, Yajurvedic Anusvara3, Yajurvedic Anusvara4, Jivamuliya,
Krishna Yajurvedic Anusvara, Krishna Yajurvedic Long Anusvara, Yajurvedic
Anusvara5, Yajurvedic Anusvara6, Yajurvedic Anusvara7, Long Kampa, Short
Kampa,
Jatya Svarita-Atharvaveda, Svarita, Long Svarita, Anudatta, Jatya Svarita
Shukla Yajurveda, Jatya Svarita, Shukla Maitrayaniya, Sentance ending
Udatta, Jatya Svarita non-Taittirya Yajurveda, Svarita Maitrayaniya, and
Anudatta Kathaka.

 These characters are outside the normal 8-bit encoding space of ISCII
(in that standard must be accessed by use of the ISCII Extension code
character [F0h]).

 -Chris



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