Attempt is to force the Tamil grammar and Tamil alphabet to submit to another form of writing.
For example technically conjucts does not exists. it just an approximation technique. for example, BR in BRown is not accurately written and it is not conjunct or conjunct like. tamil simply does not define conjuncts as they are not natural phonominan, but a made up phenominan. Who do not understand? tamil do not understand or grantham do not understand? UCs attempt to rewrite the heritage and rewrite Tamil script is a blatent attempt to enslave for political reasons, not technical reasons. there are onlu 30+3 characters defined in tamil. UC never willing to encode the last two, because it is assumed instead of explicitly putting in written form. This is the contemporary grammar written over 3000 years ago and contents dates back to 10s of thousands of years. Yet, UC will want to destroy the unique system and replace it with sudo random bad scripts which have no scientific foundation, but a collection of punk culture. Every one understand it. there is no conjuct in reality. It's all a punk culture. Sinnathurai --- On Fri, 26/11/10, N. Ganesan <[email protected]> wrote: From: N. Ganesan <[email protected]> Subject: [indic] Re: Revisit Tamil sRi definition in Unicode. To: "John Hudson" <[email protected]>, "Indic Discussion List" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, 26 November, 2010, 12:14 On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 7:49 PM, John Hudson <[email protected]> wrote: I asked for technical issues related to computer encoding, not yet more insistence on the specialness and uniqueness of Tamil. I've got a Jewish colleague who will happily spend hours asserting to you that the Hebrew alphabet is the only one that is of direct divine origin, and he will also provide you with illustrated citations of Jewish grammarians demonstrating the relationship of Hebrew letters to the shape of the mouth and, yes, places of articulation. This is all very interesting as a cultural phenomenon, but nothing to do with computer encoding. Unicode has seen over the last years from a small group of people but in high powers in Tamil Nadu sending e-mails with wrong propaganda about encoding. Now Govt. of India has given its proposal to encode Grantha script, an ancient script that has been used historically to write not only Indo-Aryan and Dravidian langauge texts, but also a host of additional languages in South East Asia. Many letters of both Grantha and Tamil look similar, but due to the conjunct formation, virama - shape and properties, and especially the vertical stacking in grantha, repha forms, the different sets of vowel signs (matra-s), etc., words written in the 2 scripts look very different. Those not knowing the script or encoding principles talk about the grantha conjuncts, ksha & shrii and so on. N. Ganesan JH -- Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Gulf Islands, BC [email protected] A pilgrimage is a journey undertaken in the light of a story. -- Paul Elie
