Re: Bangla(Bengali) letter Missing

2000-07-30 Thread Doug Ewell
Abdul Malik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If that is so, it only leaves the problem of how to display Unicode encoded text, where the language is not known. asbestos Well, you could always use U+E0001 U+E0061 U+E0073 to mark your Assamese text and U+E0001 U+E0062 U+E006E to mark your Bengali text.

Re: Bangla(Bengali) letter Missing

2000-07-30 Thread Md Ziaur Rahman
The guidlines for devanagari show these rules: Ta virama = Ta virama (when final) Ta virama ZWNJ = Ta virama Ta virama [...] = conjunct form Ta virama ZWJ = Devanagari half form of ta (= khando-ta?) I also shifted from standard by suggesting that Ta+virama = Khando-Ta(when final). Maximum

Re: Bangla(Bengali) letter Missing

2000-07-29 Thread Md Ziaur Rahman
Now I came to the conclusion that there is a way to represent khando-ta in Standard and that is quite satisfactory. However some indications are confusing. So I am writing my understanding, Ta + Virama + ZWNJ = ta with explicit virama Ta + Virama + consonant = Conjunct (ta +

Re: Bangla(Bengali) letter Missing

2000-07-29 Thread Abdul Malik
My question is, should speakers of Bangla be restricted to be able to form only the common forms, or should there be a way for us to produce both forms shown? Or perhaps do you expect us (Bangladeshis) to use the assami Va? In the grammar book by Munir chowdhury, Mofazzal Haider Ch. and

Re: Bangla(Bengali) letter Missing

2000-07-28 Thread Abdul Malik
- Original Message - From: Md Ziaur Rahman Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 9:38 PM Subject: Re: Bangla(Bengali) letter Missing Now I came to the conclusion that there is a way to represent khando-ta in Standard and that is quite satisfactory. However some indications are confusing. So

Bangla(Bengali) letter Missing

2000-07-27 Thread Md Ziaur Rahman
Hi everyone, I am a Bangladeshi.Bangladesh is a countryto the east of India. Bangla is our national language. Recently I checked the unicode standard 3.0 and found that a letter that is frequently used in Bangla is absent from the standard. It is Bangla letter Khondo-ta. . Cananyone tell

Re: Bangla(Bengali) letter Missing

2000-07-27 Thread brendan_murray
Md Ziaur Rahman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... found that a letter that is frequently used in Bangla is absent from the standard. It is Bangla letter Khondo-ta I believe that this character is a composition of TA (U+09A4) and the ZERO-WIDTH JOINER, the so-called half-consonant, as opposed to

RE: Bangla(Bengali) letter Missing

2000-07-27 Thread Marco . Cimarosti
Brendan Murray wrote: "Md Ziaur Rahman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... found that a letter that is frequently used in Bangla is absent from the standard. It is Bangla letter Khondo-ta I believe that this character is a composition of TA (U+09A4) and the ZERO-WIDTH JOINER, the so-called

Re: Bangla(Bengali) letter Missing

2000-07-27 Thread Abdul Malik
"Md Ziaur Rahman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... found that a letter that is frequently used in Bangla is absent from the standard. It is Bangla letter Khondo-ta A more of a concen of mine is the lack of a 'Bengali letter Va' in the standard. Some Bangla texts make a distinction where a conjunt

Re: Bangla(Bengali) letter Missing

2000-07-27 Thread Robert Brady
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Abdul Malik wrote: How am I to encode the different forms in unicode? For the last three, you can do something like BENGALI LETTER WHATEVER BENGALI VIRAMA BENGALI LETTER BA for the -va form, and BENGALI LETTER WHATEVER BENGALI VIRAMA ZERO WIDTH JOINER

RE: Bangla(Bengali) letter Missing

2000-07-27 Thread Marco . Cimarosti
Robert Brady wrote: On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Abdul Malik wrote: How am I to encode the different forms in unicode? For the last three, you can do something like BENGALI LETTER WHATEVER BENGALI VIRAMA BENGALI LETTER BA for the -va form, and BENGALI LETTER WHATEVER BENGALI

Re: Bangla(Bengali) letter Missing

2000-07-27 Thread Dhrubajyoti Banerjee
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Abdul Malik wrote Robert Brady wrote: On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Abdul Malik wrote: How am I to encode the different forms in unicode? For the last three, you can do something like BENGALI LETTER WHATEVER BENGALI VIRAMA BENGALI LETTER BA for the