Re: Tamil Collation vs Transliteration/Transcription Enc Version2

From: Sinnathurai Srivas (sisrivas@blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: Sun Jun 26 2005 - 22:21:14 CDT

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    with the annotation "Indic transliteration".

    please send a pointer to the above

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "David Starner" <prosfilaes@gmail.com>
    To: "Sinnathurai Srivas" <sisrivas@blueyonder.co.uk>; "Unicode List"
    <unicode@unicode.org>
    Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 12:42 AM
    Subject: Re: Tamil Collation vs Transliteration/Transcription Enc Version2

    On 6/26/05, Sinnathurai Srivas <sisrivas@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
    > Imagine, because English can not write India, it writes India. Fools the
    > whole world and the Indians as it in India. Is that the duty of Unicodew
    > to
    > fix this problem in English?

    What problem? If you look at the Unicode standard, you will find a
    number of letters with the annotation "Indic transliteration". This
    and other characters were added to Unicode so English could write
    Sanskrit and Tamil and other languages exactly.

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