Re: Fwd: ABNF defintion of Indic syllable

As per BIS IS 16500:2012
it should be in this form (see screenshot attached.)



हरिराम
प्रगत भारत <http://hariraama.blogspot.com>


On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 12:33 AM, Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org> wrote:

> On 24/06/2014 05:47, Somnath Chandra wrote:
>
>> The link of the test suite is available at
>> *http://w3cindia.in/syllable-generator.aspx*.
>>
>
> So when I use this to parse सद्बुद्धि it produces the result shown in the
> attached picture.  The font I have shows a visible virama but there are
> only three syllables.  This is also the conclusion one draws from the rules
> themselves.
>
> There had previously been a suggestion that in such a situation there are
> two syllables, rather than one. (See my email asking about that at
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-i18n-indic/2014AprJun/0000.html)
>
>
> Is this the case? Is it different in Hindi versus, say, Tamil? I think
> this is currently an important question to resolve for CSS spec work.
>
> Cheers,
> RI
>
>

Received on Monday, 14 July 2014 12:29:22 UTC