Dear All, Anusvara and Visarga are not required for Tamil. Tamil Grammar (first chapter) deals with writing system. Tamil writing system is different to mostly other Indic system. primarily, Tamil alphabet does not represent sounds, but represents Places of articulation. Most Indic alphabet represent sound. This is distinct phenomenon.
beside, there are rules to achieve what ever Anusvara and Visarga are doing. Unicode should not attempt to fix Tamil language to accommodate a different writing system, even for transliteration. Tamil has it's own transliteration methods. As tamil is classical, ancient, current and scientific, there should not be an attempt to destroy the system. please leave it alone. tamil alphabet and it's interpretations/usage is scientifically defined. Regards Sinnathurai On 9 February 2012 02:45, N. Ganesan <naa.gane...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Pavanaja U B <pavan...@vishvakannada.com> > wrote: > > > > Unicode’s policy is not delete any character once encoded. You just > don’t use it. That’s all. > > > > On another thinking, I feel it will be even better to add more > characters to Tamil to help in transliterating from other Indian languages. > > > > Regards, > > Pavanaja > > > > Yes. Anusvara and Visarga are core characters needed for transliteration > in Tamil script. > The Indic, non-Tamil languages' rendition to Tamil script uses them > extensively. > > Regards > N. Ganesan >