1/ It is the duty of Govt.of India to safeguard and develop the world's original, scientific and structured alphabet system for the sake the world if not for one of its minority partners need. So it's actions need to be very carefully thought out.
2/ Unicode can not create duplicate characters. 3/ Unicode shoud not create conceptually similar characters that can confuse with Tamil. Unicode would have learnt it's lesson in creating the confusable in the form of 0bb6 and ob9a. UC should not create more of the confusable. 4/ Govt.of India must concentrate on developing using the scientific principles, instead of this random principles, as it has to take the continent forward and not dwindle in racial motives. Hope India looks at problems with scientific angle with civilisation of the Continent in mind. Sinnathurai --- On Sat, 27/11/10, N. Ganesan <[email protected]> wrote: From: N. Ganesan <[email protected]> Subject: [indic] Re: Revisit Tamil sRi definition in Unicode. To: "UnicoRe Mailing List" <[email protected]> Cc: "Indic Discussion List" <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, 27 November, 2010, 22:45 On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Sinnathurai Srivas <[email protected]> wrote: This is not ideological purity. There are two or More issues, nothing to do with purity. 1/ Tamil alphabet does not represent sounds, but places of articulation. Other alphabet represents sounds, directly. Hence, we are talking vary alien writing systems. Tamil system is scientifically defined. Grantham for example is randomly picked for some known sounds (of course some of them are funky). 2/ By law of grammar Tamil character already have a character for the duplicate 0bb6 defined again for Tamil by Unicode. It is a deadly distributive act for UC to introduce a duplicate character for Tamil. It is the dictatorial Way the paid officials work. 3/ Grantham does not understand pirappidam R and it's possible variants of sounds. R/T etc... In that R is similar to R in English. Grantham only understands r, which I can not explain the sample in English. Bot it much closer to s softer t, than R. Further to this, the r in sri is like teasing hinthu gods like sri ram, etc.. That is how it is understood by Tamils. Do you like laughing at Lord Ram. go and do that using another medium, like chanting/cursing with a dead language. Thosham. However in Tamil, there are two PoAs with sounds same as English R and Grantham r. So there is a usage conflict in using the symbol sRi, when stricting it to one combination. Because Grantham does not understand, UC should not punish like villains of computing. 4/ Examples: Even in that Hindi/Government websites, two differnt forms of "s" are used to mean different designations for sri, In addition to the additional r/R distinction in Tamil. So we do not want Lord Ram to be laughed at. You do not want Mha sRi Luxmi to be laughed at. So strictingto a particular combination is again a wrong action by UC. By the way, why your show serpriced with JHs reply. Do you have some business like deals, for him not to write? How close is your relationship? Sinnathurai --- Please see Govt. of India proposal for Grantha. It has the needed basic set of letters of Grantha script. Both Grantha and Tamil have been completely disunified. Only thing to do further: disunify Grantha and Tamil digits also. For Grantha use digit shapes of palm leaves which is published in R. Grunendahl's book. Apparently, for Grantha & Tamil digit disunification we found some support from people who encoded scores of Brahmi scripts. Like many letters, it will be good when Grantha digits are also disunified. N. Ganesan
