Re: [indic] Re: Feedback on PR-104

From: Omi Azad (me@omiazad.net)
Date: Fri Aug 17 2007 - 11:04:15 CDT

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    Ganesan,
    PR 104 is very technical for me to understand but after going through
    your mail I want to comment on K.SSA. In Bangla we call that conjunct
    KHIO, but that is not a conjunct what our kids read. I can give you
    scans of Bangla book, where KHIO is a unique character. I also
    noticed that Ministry of IT, India also proposed for assign unique
    code for that character.

    Am I going in track?

    Omi
    http://omi.net.bd

    On Aug 17, 2007, at 3:53 PM, N. Ganesan wrote:

    > On 8/16/07, Bala <bala@cse.mrt.ac.lk> wrote:
    >> If we looked at the Grantha language, like JA, SHA, SSA, SA, HA,
    >> the K.SSA also single letter in Grantha,
    >
    > Thanks for sending my friend, Venu's book page. About a month ago,
    > unfortunately he is no more.
    >
    > ------
    >
    > It is Grantha *script*, specifically called Tamil Grantha in
    > literature,
    > and there is no "Grantha language" that I'm aware of.
    >
    >> Please refer attachment. (Last letter from the consonants table)
    >> It will show that it does not made up by 2 consonants in Grantha.
    >>
    >
    > k.ss, as shown in Venugopalan's book also, has two consonants
    > and in Unicode parlance, <KA, VIRAMA, SSA> in all of India's scripts.
    >
    > Btw, the k.ssa conjunct is not the only one used for representing
    > english letter, x which is represented by k.s usually. In Tamil, x is
    > many times replaced by k.c as well.
    >
    > In India's scripts, Devanagari, Malayalam or Tamil
    > the conjunct letter, k.ss is treated as such.
    > See Cathy Wissink's old paper,
    > http://unicode.org/notes/tn1/Wissink-IndicCollation.pdf
    > Marathi (in Devanagari) uses k.ss as a consonant, but in Unicode
    > similar to what is done for Malayalam or Tamil. There is no atomic
    > k.ssa
    > so far at least.
    >
    > If the conjunct k.ss is to be coded atomically, one can write
    > a proposal to UTC. If the Govt.(s) back it, it may be successful.
    > A parallel may be the chillus in Malayalam which
    > in all cases are identical, example: chillu nn = <nn, virama, zwj>.
    > Similarly, an atomic k.ssa = <ka, virama, ssa>.
    >
    > Anyways, users need to wait on what happens to TACE (for Tamil)
    > proposal
    > with UTC. When will we know? By mid-2008? Atomic k.ssa and the
    > whole set of vowelozed series for k.ssa will be there if TACE becomes
    > a reality.
    >
    > N. Ganesan
    >
    >> Kind Regards
    >> G. Balachandran
    >>
    >> -----Original Message-----
    >> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-
    >> bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of N. Ganesan
    >> Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 5:19 AM
    >> Cc: Unicode Mailing List; indic@unicode.org
    >> Subject: Re: [indic] Re: Feedback on PR-104
    >>
    >>> There is no conjunct in Tamil
    >>
    >> The Grantha conjunct, k.ss exists in Tamil like all other Indian
    >> scripts.
    >> It is made up of two consonants, KA & SSA, hence a conjunct.
    >> We use ZWNJ to break the conjunct for Islamic, English loan words
    >> into Tamil.
    >>
    >> Pl. refer to TUS for the conjunct k.ss in India's scripts.
    >>
    >> N. Ganesan
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >



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