Hi before I could reply to your mail I had to look up "wiki" and "FDL" on the web. Just to make sure I wasn't joining some kind of doomsday cult.
Yes, you may put up that mail. Please strip headers, I receive enough junk mail, thank you. Yes, people can copy/redistribute my little mail under FDL. If you want I can write up a tiny page on coding bangla in unicode since the unicode people haven't done that separately. -kg On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: > > > Hi everybody! Legolas here ... ;) > > Just a suggestion for the website guys. > > And a request for Kaushik. Kaushik, this was a very informative mail. For a > novice in I18n and l10n, this gives very good pointers. Could you give > permission to me for putting up the contents of this mail on a Wiki page > that I have just started off on my site? Would you mind providing it under > an FDL license? > > And here is the suggestion. How about having a Wiki on the > banglapenguin.org site regarding all related issues? We can have a FAQ and > *everybody* can maintain it! I would rather have it running here where all > interested and interesting folks can join in, than at my own web site. ;) > I can help in setting it up, of course. > > As an example, I have setup my wiki at > http://www.sandipb.net/cgi-bin/twiki/bin/view/I18n/WebHome > > thanks, > Sandip > > At 01:19 AM 10/10/2002 -0400, you wrote: > > >Hello my preciousss, > > > >On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Gollum wrote: > > > > > I see yukhtakshar as a combination charecter so it is not a new single > > > charecter. Hence missing from bangla unicode charecter charts. I am > > trying to > > > see what unicode says about yukhtakshar. if not. then we need to bypass it > > > >I'm no expert, but I've been implementing it in come code I've been > >writing and using Yudit to cross check and it works, so here's the short > >of it: > > > >Juktakhor in unicode is represented as individual consonants separated by > >0x09cd (hashanta). So ka + ra (also known as ka-y-raphola) is > > > >0x0985 + 0x09cd + 0x09b0 > > > >danteshha + ta (has in hasta) > > > >0x09b8 + 0x09cd + 0x09a4 > > > >If you have to use a "real" hashanta you use something called a zero width > >non joiner 0x200c > > > >so khondo-tha is actually > > > >tha + hashonto + zwnj > > > >0x09a4 0x09cd 0x200c > > > >Similarly reph is basically a conjunct with ra as the first character > > > >ir reph + ka = > > > >ra + ka > > > >0x09b0 + 0x09cd + 0x0995 > > > > > > > all. and save it for the pango module. whenever a perticular 2 charecters > > > apears a third charecter is displayed which is the yukhtakshar. I don't > > think > > > redering yukhtakshar will be a problem because it's just a font charecter. > > > out problem is to know the various combinations that lead to a yuktakshar. > > > Once I make a list of that. I think i will jump into pango. > > > >You may want to talk to Sayamindu, who's working on a OTF bangla font, and > >must have dealt with these issues.. > > > > > > > > OK enough of all this. did anyone ever see a bangla typewriter. I > > havent if > > > someone has please tell me so. Or if there is a standard bagla keyboard > > > layout. > > > >Look at the Ekushey website > >http://altruists.org/software/21/ > > > >Robin has some layouts... > > > > > > > > Oh hi to sandeep and kaushik. You people seem to mail a lot on the mailing > > > list. > > > >It just looks that way, smoke and mirrors. I just cross post a lot. > > > >-kg > > > >____________________________________________________________ > >To unsubscribe from this list [Bangla Penguin] send a mail > >to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe banglapenguin' > >in the subjectline and body. > >Archive of this mailing list is available at > >http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > ____________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from this list [Bangla Penguin] send a mail > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe banglapenguin' > in the subjectline and body. > Archive of this mailing list is available at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > ____________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from this list [Bangla Penguin] send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe banglapenguin' in the subjectline and body. Archive of this mailing list is available at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
