Re: Continue:Glaring mistake in the code list for South Asian Script

2011-09-10 Thread Chridtopher Fynn
On 10/09/2011 04:53, delex r wrote: I figure out that Unicode has not addressed the sovereignty issues of a language while trying to devise an ASCII like encoding system for almost all the characters and symbols used on earth. . The Unicode encodes writing systems not languages - it

Re: Continue:Glaring mistake in the code list for South Asian Script

2011-09-10 Thread Petr Tomasek
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 02:02:09AM +, Doug Ewell wrote: English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, and Polish are all different languages. Each has its own pronunciation, vocabulary, orthography, national identity, and rich literary tradition. Would you

Re: Continue:Glaring mistake in the code list for South Asian Script

2011-09-10 Thread anbu
Hi Unicode Community! I recommend to Unicode that this grievance is taken into account. No one consonant in this code range is used by only one language. Refer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Nagari_alphabet#Consonants The Indian census of 1961 recognised 1,652 different languages in

Re: Continue:Glaring mistake in the code list for South Asian Script

2011-09-10 Thread Doug Ewell
Anbu Kaveeswarar Selvaraju anbu at peoplestring dot com wrote: The Bengali alphabet (Bengali: বাংলা লিপি bangla lipi or Bengali: বঙ্গলিপি bôņgôlipi) is the writing system for the Bengali language. The same script is the basis for the Assamese, Meitei, Bishnupriya Manipuri, Kokborok, Garo and

RE: Continue:Glaring mistake in the code list for South Asian Script

2011-09-10 Thread Peter Constable
[mailto:unicode-bou...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of a...@peoplestring.com Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 2:09 AM To: kent.karlsso...@telia.com Cc: del...@indiatimes.com; unicode@unicode.org Subject: Re: Continue:Glaring mistake in the code list for South Asian Script Hi Unicode Community! I

Re: Continue:Glaring mistake in the code list for South Asian Script

2011-09-10 Thread Richard Wordingham
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 12:33:47 +0600 Chridtopher Fynn chris.f...@gmail.com wrote: Characters only used for writing Assamese in the Bengali block is similar. As long as you can type all the characters necessary for writing your language, don't worry about names. Actually, names sometimes

Re: Continue:Glaring mistake in the code list for South Asian Script

2011-09-10 Thread Mark E. Shoulson
On 09/09/2011 08:12 PM, Peter Constable wrote (responding to del...@indiatimes.com): Thus, what you refer to as a glaring mistake is not a mistake at all when considered in relation to what the intent and usage within the Standard is--and what it is _not_. More significantly, it doesn't even

Continue:Glaring mistake in the code list for South Asian Script

2011-09-09 Thread delex r
I figure out that Unicode has not addressed the sovereignty issues of a language while trying to devise an ASCII like encoding system for almost all the characters and symbols used on earth. I am continuing with my observation of the glaring mistake done by Unicode by naming a South Asian

RE: Continue:Glaring mistake in the code list for South Asian Script

2011-09-09 Thread Peter Constable
: Continue:Glaring mistake in the code list for South Asian Script I figure out that Unicode has not addressed the sovereignty issues of a language while trying to devise an ASCII like encoding system for almost all the characters and symbols used on earth. I am continuing with my observation of the glaring

Re: Continue:Glaring mistake in the code list for South Asian Script

2011-09-09 Thread Kent Karlsson
Den 2011-09-10 00:53, skrev delex r del...@indiatimes.com: I figure out that Unicode has not addressed the sovereignty issues of a language Which, I daresay, is irrelevant from a *character* encoding perspective. while trying to devise an ASCII like encoding system for almost all the

Re: Continue:Glaring mistake in the code list for South Asian Script

2011-09-09 Thread Doug Ewell
English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, and Polish are all different languages. Each has its own pronunciation, vocabulary, orthography, national identity, and rich literary tradition. Would you suggest that the letters used in each of these languages should be