I happened across these links: http://acharya.iitm.ac.in/multi_sys/exist_codes.html http://acharya.iitm.ac.in/multi_sys/uni_iscii.html which do contain a nice discussion about ISCII but then they discuss Unicode in, ummm, somewhat negative terms. Myself knowing next to nothing about Indic scripts it would be nice to hear comments from someone who does know. I do notice some misunderstanding about Unicode in the above links, quoting from the first one: > Unicode, besides permitting an 8 bit representation for each language, adds > an 8 bit identifier as a most significant byte to make the code 16 bits. > Data processing software using Unicode will be able to identify the Language > of the text for each character and use appropriate fonts to display them. > > Technically, Unicode can handle 256 different languages but in practice, > this number is significantly smaller. Unicode has allowed nearly 24000 characters > of Chinese, Japanese and Korean scripts to be included in a single set. > Currently fewer than a hundred languages are included in the Unicode. > > Even though it is a sixteen bit code, Unicode usually provides for about > 128 characters for each language. A messy conflation of "languages" and "characters" and "fonts". Not to forget "sixteen bit code". The web site has been updated in July.
discontent about Indic scripts and Unicode
Hietaniemi Jarkko (NRC/Boston) Tue, 18 Sep 2001 13:57:40 -0700
- Re: discontent about Indic scripts and Unic... Hietaniemi Jarkko (NRC/Boston)
- Re: discontent about Indic scripts and... Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
- Re: discontent about Indic scripts and... Kenneth Whistler
- RE: discontent about Indic scripts and... Carl W. Brown
- Re: discontent about Indic scripts and... Ram Viswanadha
- RE: discontent about Indic scripts... Carl W. Brown
- RE: discontent about Indic scripts and... Carl W. Brown
- Re: discontent about Indic scripts... Charlie Jolly
- RE: discontent about Indic scripts... James E. Agenbroad
- Re: discontent about Indic scripts and... Rick McGowan
- Re: discontent about Indic scripts... James E. Agenbroad