Smooth "fonts" on the web-site :-)
Maybe one should check links before sending them public.
BR
Audun H. Lona
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From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On
Behalf Of Arjun Aggarwal
Sent: 1. november 2001 09:23
To: unicode@unicode.org
Subject: No proper representation of Devnagari in Unicode
Hi Everybody
The Unicode character set in it's current form does not support
Devnagari well.It has no half characters for the Devnagari script.
It is just like not having e a d f in the roman(latin) script.
This particular aspect renders it useless to be used by anyone
including programmers.
The Devnagari script is used to write the third most spoken language of
the world - Hindi (spoken by people in almost 10 countries) and a long
list of other languages-
Sindhi , Pahari , Dogri, Nepali , Sanskrit , Rajasthani , Gharwali ,
Maithili, Bhojpuri , Marathi , Konkani , Bodo , Ho , Santhali and
sometimes even Punjabi , Urdu , Kashmiri and Tibetan.
Although the complete Devnagari is available for the Windows font as
True Type Font in just the no. of keys on a QWERTY
keyboard.Hindi(Devnagari) has it's own typewriter with just the same no.
of keys as in a standard English typewriter.
The font is also availalable for MacOS , Unix , Xenix and Linux.
The best Devnagari font available in it's full useable form is the
Shusha font from http://www.bharatbhasha.org .Please check it out form
this site.
Then why is it that the Unicode committee could not incorporate all the
half characters? Instead they incorporated full characters which are
seldom used by the users of the various languages that are written in
Devnagari . What they could have done is provided half characters in
place of the full ones and just provided a DANDA to make them into full
ones as and when needed.
Can somebody help me out.
I just do not seem to understand what to do about it as the Devnagari
representation in it's present form is absolutely useless for anybody
throughout the world.
With Regards
Arjun Aggarwal
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