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Sinnathurai Srivas wrote:
> Encoding Grantham or sanskrit is not a problem. Encoding transliteration
> is not a problem. The problem is encoding some thing as Tamil, or in
> code space reserved for tamil is the problem. It legitimises foreign
> languages as part of tamil. we love all languages, but we do not want
> other languages to change ours. We have a long history of resisting.
> This attept by Unicode is going to be the toughest one and Tamil would
> provbably loose and the die. Unicode will have such power in the future.
>

http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d3rebas/philosophy/athfun/1.txt

(Sorry. Couldn't help myself. Can't we all just lighten up?)

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