Dear Dr Phukan, The greatest service one can render for one's native script(s) in terms of Unicode is to research whatever existing written forms are as yet *unencoded* and research them and get them encoded. Another great service is to get educated about the Unicode standard and educate those who are not yet educated about Unicode. It is also relevant to note here that a person who may be an expert in linguistics is not necessarily an expert in Unicode and hence may also need to be educated about it.
Variations in names can be handled by adding informative aliases or annotations in the code chart. If some of the characters used in Bengali have different names in the Assamese context, please provide a list of those characters and those extra names can be added as informative aliases. For example, the very commonly used Devanagari Unicode character 094D DEVANAGARI SIGN VIRAMA has the informative alias: = halant (the preferred Hindi name) Similarly, you can have: 09F0 BENGALI LETTER RA WITH MIDDLE DIAGONAL annotated as: = assamese letter ra And similarly: 09F1 BENGALI LETTER RA WITH LOWER DIAGONAL annotated as: = assamese letter wa And so on for your entire list of characters which have distinct names in Assamese. You understand that a script is often known worldwide by the major language that uses it. You cannot deny that the Bengali language has far more speakers than the Assamese language. Therefore the script associated with that language is known by that same name, even in the case of the additional characters which are specific to Assamese orthography. However your desire for these characters to be known as Assamese Letter X and Assamese Letter Y (just examples) and so on can certainly be satisfied by such informative aliases as I have described above. @Unicode veterans: Given that almost the entire Sinhala block has informative aliases giving alternate names for the characters, and since the Assamese evidently feel very strongly about this issue, it beseems me that the only practical solution here is to add informative aliases for such "Bengali" script characters as are used in Assamese orthography. -- Shriramana Sharma
