Re: Proposal to add Bengali Khanda Ta

2002-12-03 Thread Antoine LECA
Hi folks, This post is a bit long, so here is a resume: - regarding the encodings of TMA, they are currently several possibilities, so it should be possible to sort all normal cases with current characters. - however, this shows that ISCII provides a characetr, INV, with no counter part in

RE: Proposal to add Bengali Khanda Ta

2002-12-03 Thread Peter_Constable
On 12/02/2002 10:23:54 AM Andy White wrote: Marco wrote My counter-proposal is: 09A4 + 034F + 09CD [= Khanda Ta] (TA + CGJ + VIRAMA) I thought about your proposal and checked up on the semantics of CGJ. The Standard states, In particular, inserting a combining grapheme

RE: Proposal to add Bengali Khanda Ta

2002-12-02 Thread Andy White
Marco wrote My counter-proposal is: 09A4 + 034F + 09CD [= Khanda Ta] (TA + CGJ + VIRAMA) This strong way of encoding Kanda Ta would anyway not exclude the default soft formation of KhandaTa at the end of a word, with the simple sequence:

RE: Proposal to add Bengali Khanda Ta

2002-12-02 Thread Andy White
Marco wrote My counter-proposal is: 09A4 + 034F + 09CD [= Khanda Ta] (TA + CGJ + VIRAMA) This strong way of encoding Kanda Ta would anyway not exclude the default soft formation of KhandaTa at the end of a word, with the simple sequence:

RE: Proposal to add Bengali Khanda Ta

2002-11-29 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Andy White wrote: Please see and comment on my Proposal to add 'Bengali Letter Khanda Ta' to the Bengali Block (initial version): http://www.exnet.btinternet.co.uk/KhandaWeb/khandaproposal.htm | [...] | This example shows that in order to display the correct | spelling of the word 'satmaa',

RE: Proposal to add Bengali Khanda Ta

2002-11-29 Thread Andy White
Marco wrote I have a few questions: - What is the meaning of satmaa and sadaatmaa? 'satmaa' means stepmother. 'sadaatmaa' means 'good soul' / 'virtuous' - Why is /tmaa/ spelled differently in the two words? 'satmaa' has the roots of 'sat' = good 'Maa' = mother. As 'Sat' is correctly

RE: Proposal to add Bengali Khanda Ta

2002-11-29 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Andy White wrote: Marco wrote I have a few questions: - What is the meaning of satmaa and sadaatmaa? 'satmaa' means stepmother. 'sadaatmaa' means 'good soul' / 'virtuous' Bingo! Well, nearly... My guess was that satmaa was the Bengali for Wachstube. :-) German has two different