From: "Aparna A. Kulkarni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 8:23 AM
Subject: RE: Devanagari Letter Short A
> The character U+0904 (DEVANAGARI LETTER SHORT A) is
The character U+0904 (DEVANAGARI LETTER SHORT A) is not a part of ISCII 91.
Neither was it encoded in any of the earlier versions of ISCII. Hence
according to the ISCII standard this character simply cannot be formed.
Aparna A. Kulkarni
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Ernest Cline wrote:
>
> I've been trying to make sense of the Indian scripts, but am
> having one small difficulty. I can't seem to find the ISCII 1991
> equivalent for U+0904 (DEVANAGARI LETTER SHORT A).
I do not believe you'll find it there.
U+0904 had been added to Unicode for version 4.0. In
Philippe Verdy va escriure:
>
> U+0904 DEVANAGARI LETTER SHORT A is used only for the case of an
> independant vowel. It can be "viewed" as a conjunct of the
> independant vowel U+0905 DEVANAGARI LETTER A and the dependant
> vowel sign U+0946 DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN SHORT E (noted "for
> transcribin
My understanding of the Indian scripts coded in Unicode, is that the mapping
from ISCII to Unicode is not straightforward one-to-one, because ISCII uses a
contextual encoding for characters (allowing shifts between several scripts) and
some rich-text features.
The ISCII character model is not exac
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