On 2019-01-13, James Kass via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > यदि आप किसी रोटरी फोन से कॉल कर रहे हैं, तो कृपया स्टार (*) दबाएं।
> What happens with Devanagari text? Should the user community refrain > from interchanging data because 1980s era software isn't Unicode aware? Devanagari is an established writing system (which also doesn't need separate letters for different typefaces). Those who wish to exchange information in devanagari will use either an ISCII or Unicode system with suitable font support. Just as those who wish to exchange English text with typographic detail will use a suitable typographic mark-up system with font support, which will typically not interfere with plain text searching. Even in a PDF document, "art nouveau" will appear as "art nouveau" whatever font it's in. Incidentally, a large chunk of my facebook feed is Indian politics, and of that portion of it that is in Hindi or other Indian languages, most is still written in ASCII transcription, even though every web browser and social media application in common use surely has full Unicode support these days. Sometimes using your own writing system is just too much effort! -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.