Re: special marks in Bengali poetry

2001-01-30 Thread Michael Everson
Ar 13:56 -0800 2001-01-29, scrobh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I understand that Bengali Islamic epic poetry (known as "puthi") the metre (or it may be a particular metre known as "poyar" or "poear") is marked off by the use of double danda and a special character sometimes known as "ful". I believe this

Re: special marks in Bengali poetry

2001-01-30 Thread Peter_Constable
Oh, Peter, how can we possibly know? Shall we guess what it looks like? I was hoping that there'd be somebody on this list familiar with Bengali poetry who would know exactly what I'm talking about and what it looks like. why *not* use U+2741? Does its character property actually matter? Why

special marks in Bengali poetry

2001-01-29 Thread Peter_Constable
I understand that Bengali Islamic epic poetry (known as "puthi") the metre (or it may be a particular metre known as "poyar" or "poear") is marked off by the use of double danda and a special character sometimes known as "ful". I believe this sometimes looks flower-like or like a circle with thin