Hi Christopher,
There are more transliteration schemes for input already than one
language will ever need.
http://www.nongnu.org/sinhala/doc/transliteration/sinhala-transliteration_5.html
http://www.nongnu.org/sinhala/doc/transliteration/sinhala-transliteration_1.html
2012/6/19 Naena Guru naenag...@gmail.com:
Below are links to two files that show the first paragraph of this web page:
http://www.divaina.com/2012/06/17/scholast.html
Unicode Sinhala:
http://ahangama.com/sing/DBS.htm (4 kB)
Romanized Singhala:
http://ahangama.com/sing/DSS.htm (1 kB)
2012/6/19 Naena Guru naenag...@gmail.com:
Unicode Sinhala:
http://ahangama.com/sing/DBS.htm (4 kB)
Romanized Singhala:
http://ahangama.com/sing/DSS.htm (1 kB)
Compare the shape formation and the sizes of the files. How much bandwidth
is taken for the Unicode Sinhala file to go as UFT-8?
Naena Guru naenag...@gmail.com
Naena - If you don't like Unicode, then develop your own character
encoding and try to get your country to adopt it as a national
standard - but please stop trying to abuse Unicode and OpenType by
attempting to warp them to conform to your scheme.
You could also
, Bertie
Fernando bertieferna...@hotmail.com, Ruvan Weerasinghe
a...@ucsc.cmb.ac.lk, Gihan Dias gi...@cse.mrt.ac.lk, Wasantha
Deshapriya wasan...@icta.lk
*Sent: *Monday, June 18, 2012 10:07:14 AM
*Subject: *Re: Offlist: complex rendering
Hi JC,
You have been making the same allegations
Naena Guru naenag...@gmail.com 於 2012年6月18日 下午3:50 寫道：
Unicode says that it is all about codes and not shapes. It gave two examples,
Fraktur and Gaelic as scripts allowed to reside on Latin-1 but have shapes
not expected of Latin-1. That makes me wonder if Singhala is frowned upon
because
Hi JC,
You have been making the same allegations for more than half a decade.
Now you have moved on to a new forum, the Unicode Consortium. The
reality is that all the professionals and academics that work in
computational linguistics, Sinhala localization, etc in Sri Lanka are
on-board with
Tom,
Thank you for taking an interest in this matter.
You said,
Mapping multiple scripts to Latin-1 codepoints is contrary to the most
basic principles of Unicode and represents a backwards technology leap of
20 years or more.
Well, do you otherwise agree that the transliteration is good? It
I'm sorry but why is this discussion that is labeled offlist being
posted onlist continuously? Please take the discussion offlist. If
someone doesn't understand the principles of Unicode, they should try
to do so. That would be a more productive use of their time than find
some imaginary faults
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