Re: What constitutes "character"?

From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Thu Nov 08 2001 - 10:03:49 EST


Arjun:

>So can't somebody help me in doing the same for Devnagari...

People will certainly be willing to help you if you show us what's needed.
Please show us one clear example (attach a gif to a message) of a
Devanagari character that is missing from Unicode.

>That is why you may not have seen any webpages or other applications
written
>in Devnagari for computer use because the present form of representation
of
>this script in Unicode is just not sufficient.

That is to be questioned. You have said Unicode is no sufficient, but I
believe many would suggest that if you are having problems reading web
pages with Devanagari content encoded in Unicode, it is because the
software you are using is deficient.

- Peter

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