Re: Placement of Bengali Candrabindu

2011-10-21 Thread delex r
- Original Message - From: Shriramana Sharma To: Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri Cc: pan...@umich.edu, unic...@unicode.org, Unicode Discussion List Sent: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:07:46 +0530 (IST) Subject: Re: Placement of Bengali Candrabindu On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Bidyut Baran

RE: Placement of Bengali Candrabindu

2011-10-15 Thread Peter Constable
From: Shriramana Sharma [mailto:samj...@gmail.com] > Peter, I agree that there are many variegated representations. But my > gut feeling as a native user of many other Indic scripts and one who has > to use the candrabindu a lot due to Sanskrit, is that it should be > positioned above the RHS

Re: Placement of Bengali Candrabindu

2011-10-15 Thread Shriramana Sharma
On Saturday 15 October 2011 11:07 AM, Peter Constable wrote: My copy of the Bangla Academy Bangla-English dictionary generally corroborates Radice, though there are some inconsistencies--cases in which the candrabindu appears over the aa sign, or (in a ya-phalaa cluster) over the ya-phalaa, or be

Re: Placement of Bengali Candrabindu

2011-10-14 Thread Shriramana Sharma
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri wrote: > > > I did not get why you have written 'so called "Bengali" script' but did not > not add 'so called' to Assamese / Kampuri / AMBM / Pub Nagari / Eastern > Nagari scripts. Kindly enlighten. Dear sir, It was just a joke. No offence

Placement of Bengali Candrabindu

2011-10-11 Thread Shriramana Sharma
TUS 6.0 p 288 (p 320 of PDF) shows (around the middle of the page near the beginning of a line) a candrabindu which appears to be spacing and is placed to the above *and right* of a vowel sign AA. IIUC the candrabindu is a non-spacing mark and should always be placed *above* the base. Is it