At 13:18 +0100 2003-12-07, Peter Jacobi wrote:
This is the core problem. Legacy Tamil encodings and use see the vowel signs as individual characters. Switching to ISCII or Unicode will break this.
Oh well. Sometimes data can't be migrated reversibly. Think of the thousand years that Unicode *will* be used, rather than the little bit of data generated in the last twenty years.
If problems in one language like this cannot be fixed to users' satisfaction you might find that Unicode is used for that language not for a thousand years but not even for one year.
-- Peter Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) http://www.qaya.org/
