Re: Transliterator

From: James Kass (jameskass@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Wed Apr 27 2005 - 00:08:17 CST

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John Wiedenhoeft wrote,

> > aĩ -
> >
>
> That's not what I mean. I mean a Tilde over the whole digraph (please
> refer to the attached file). Writing aĩ instead is common, because it IS
> so hard to encode it correctly. Since ai and au are no distinct vowels
> and the whole diphthong is nasalized, writing the tilde only above the i
> or u is inaccurate.

Use U+0360 between the vowels of the dipthong:

ऐंठ - a͠iṭh
औंठ - a͠uṭh

It's actually easy enough to encode it correctly. Displaying it well
might be a problem, but I can get a reasonable display with various
fonts here.

Best regards,

James Kass

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