On 7/30/10, verdy_p <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > India will first need to realize that adapting the ISCII standard will be > tricky (there is no more any common byte > value available in its various 8-bit subtables, even if all of them have > empty positions, so the basic one-to-one > transliteration schemes assuming the same position for "equivalent" > letters, digits or punctuation will not work, > unless India abandons the positions reserved for C1 controls in the 8-bit > version, abandonning also the 7-bit > version of ISCII, to free the positions 0xA0 and 0xFF). > > Only one position in ISCII allows interoperable extension across the > various ISCII tables (the "EXT" code which was > reserved for Vedic extensions, but Unicode and ISO/10646 encoded them > directly in each script by overloading the > unused positions of the basic ISCII 1991 layout). But seriously, ISCII is > dying... it never reached an international > standard like ISO 8859 (it could have been, as its layout was compatible > with it), and most softwares are ignoring > it (possibly not in India though, and its market size is large enough that > ISCII could survive or could be revived > for longer time than we think). > > > With great difficulty we have managed to bury ISCII or at least make it irrelevant. Please see Preparation of Papers in a Two Column Model Paper Format
DIT, Government of India, “Notification for Unicode 5.1.0 and its future versions as the standards for eGovernance Applications”, No. 2(32)/2009-EG-II, http://eGovStandards.gov.in <http://egovstandards.gov.in/>, accessed in Apr, 2010 Kindly do not resurrect it. Vinod Kumar -- पृथिवी सस्यशालिनी the earth be green
