Hi,
Touching letters are simply:
Consonant ZWJ Consonant
I suspect I know what you are implying, are you suggesting it's
illogical to suppress the inherent vowel by using a ZWJ?
cya,
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On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 06:03 -0800, Dumindu Pallewela wrote:
> anuradha,
>
> I don't know if it is *right* for me to reply to this
> message. :)
>
> however, all i want to know is how SLS 1134 handels
> touching letters (not bandi akuru as in "ksh", I'm
> asking about the case of "sudassa").
>
> well I know that ksh is encoded as: ka + halant + zwj
> + sha.
>
> but for touching letters, it seems illogical to use
> "zwj" to join them (just an idea).
>
> dum.
>
> --- Anuradha Ratnaweera <gnu.slash.linux@???>
> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 15:21:16 +0600, Harsha
> > Senanayake
> > <harsha.sgit@???> wrote:
> > >
> > > Unicode for indic scripts follow the phonetic
> > system. You encode phonemes,
> > > not characters nor glyphs. What SLS 1134 got wrong
> > was, they went for a
> > > hybrid with more concentration of *accepted*
> > Sinhala orthography. Sinhala
> > > or Sinhalese is a *script*, which can be used by
> > other *languages* like
> > > Pali & Tamil.
> >
> > Hi Harsha,
> >
> > This is where SLS 1134 got it *right*.
> >
> > Let me ask a simple question: To me the most
> > fascinating thing about
> > Unicode/UTF-8 is that you can write whatever you
> > like in a single text
> > file without any additional rich text information.
> > Particularly, I
> > can write printf("\n").
> > Now, in your "alternative" system,
> > how can I write both Pali *and* Sinhala language
> > texts using the
> > Sinhala script? (See the attachment for an
> > example).
> >
> > Anuradha
> >
> > --
> >
> > http://www.linux.lk/~anuradha/
> >
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
> >
>
> > ATTACHMENT part 2 image/png name=all.png
>
>
>
>
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