Re: Devanagari composing help needed

From: Marnen Laibow-Koser (marnen@marnen.org)
Date: Thu Jun 07 2007 - 01:36:46 CDT

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    On Jun 6, 2007, at 10:57 PM, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote:

    > -On [20070607 02:06], Mark E. Shoulson (mark@kli.org) wrote:
    >> This sounds like either a {jha}, 091D, or {jna}, 091C+094D+091E in
    >> some
    >> fonts.
    >
    > http://www.in-nomine.org/~asmodai/hindi.png - see the character
    > above the
    > second red line.
    >
    > What confuses me, when I first used {jha} 091d is that this misses
    > the hook to
    > the right and has a connection to the top bar. That Kruti Dev 010
    > font has a
    > character that looks like a {jha} 091d + {aa} 093e combination.
    >
    > So I settled on {jna} 091c+094d+091e for the text I did, but I am
    > not 100%
    > sure.

    Yes, the second underlined character is definitely jña (ज्ञ).
    I've never seen anything like the first, but my guess is that it is
    ṣṭrī (ष्ट्री) -- but it appears to have a virama
    underneath as well, which I don't understand.

    Best, 

    -- 
Marnen Laibow-Koser
marnen@marnen.org

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