Re: [Freebangfont-devel] How to assign KhondoT - Just go ahead do do it??

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

This was a proposal sent to Unicode from the govt. of India a month
back.
I don't know what happened after that.
Andy may have some ideas
-sdg-


On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 20:35, Robin Upton wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> What's this I see from VishwaBharat @tdil (http://tdil.mit.gov.in)? Issue #6
> of their magazine has lots of interesting data about Bangla language
> including letter frequency data and some stuff about Unicode. Most
> interesting of all, on the end of the now familiar list of Bangla
> codepoints, there is a section marked 'Bengali-specific additions' with not
> only the familiar code points, but which concludes with the following
> entries:
> 09FB        BENGALI SIGN YA PHALLA
> 09FC        BENGALI SIGN KHANDA TA
> 09FD        BENGALI LETTER KHYA
> There's a note underneath that says about 09FD (Used in Assamese). How
> interesting.
> 
> I've just checked on www.unicode.org and this doesn't seem to be in Unicode
> v.3. There is no indication in VishwaBharat that these three signs are
> 'under consideration', have special status or are otherwise different from
> the other Bangla signs which appear in Unicode v.3.0.
> 
> I'm no expert on Khanda-Ta, but have been following the discussion
> passively.The need for a separate sign seems to be very well proven, for
> example by Andy White at http://www.exnet.btinternet.co.uk. Making Ya Phalla
> a separate character, although completely against the notion of Unicode OTF
> would solve the problem of .  But I'm not seeking to rehash any discussion
> of the merits of these solutions, I just thought that the 'allocation' (by
> whom, I'm unsure...) of codepoints 09F{B-D} deserved a wider audience.
> 
> Robin Upton
> Altruists International
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