From: N. Ganesan (naa.ganesan@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Aug 03 2006 - 07:38:25 CDT
On 7/30/06, Kent Karlsson <kent.karlsson14@comhem.se> wrote:
> > TeluguTeX, 1991:
> > http://groups.google.com/group/CTamil/msg/7bbcc29f8a5f33bd
>
> Hmm,
>
> * Ardhavisarga is combining in TeluguTeX and the glyph in TeluguTeX
> vs. the glyph in 06250-n3116-telugu.pdf are quite different.
>
Visarga is combining, so also, ideally, "half"-visarga (ardha-visarga) too.
But Kannada 1/2-visarga is recently encoded as non-combining,
so I guess that's followed in Telugu 1/2-visarga too.
These letters are so rare in usage, I guess combining or noncombining is ok.
> * TeluguTeX has nakarapollu and valapalagilaka that are missing
> both in Unicode and in 06250-n3116-telugu.pdf.
>
Nakarapollu "virama on n" and Valapala-gilaka "rattle on the right side"
are usually combining, and cannot occur word-initially.
Like the combining nakarapollu and valapalagilaka in TeluguTeX,
they are available as combining in Kannada script as well.
For Kannada nakarapollu and valapalagilaka, see page 2 of
http://transliteration.eki.ee/pdf/Kannada.pdf
Kannada file can be added with commonly used conjuncts.
Telugu script pdf does not exist yet. May be Nagarjuna and Suresh
can create a file and it will be useful with a set of commonly used conjuncts.
Many Indic scripts have commonly used conjuncts. For example:
Bengali script:
http://transliteration.eki.ee/pdf/Bengali-Assamese-Manipuri.pdf
(Currency numerators need to be encoded)
Oriya script:
http://transliteration.eki.ee/pdf/Oriya.pdf
Devanagari script:
http://transliteration.eki.ee/pdf/Hindi-Marathi-Nepali.pdf
Malayalam script:
http://transliteration.eki.ee/pdf/Malayalam.pdf
(The letter NNNA needs to be encoded here, I've some samples).
It will be great if Kannada and Telugu experts here
can give us a list and glyphs of commonly used conjuncts.
We can get it in Dr. Thomas Pedersen's site also.
N. Ganesan
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