Dear Richard/Steve The examples I received in email in the attachment jpg's seem to be from Bengali and not Hindi. The first letter styling is quite common among Indian languages. We > have collected few samples for Hindi from mangazines which are enclosed in > the attachment with remarks and we can therefore make a preliminary conclusion that for Hindi it applies to grapheme cluster. In my next mail we will send few more jpg's. regards Karunesh & Vijay CDAC Noida > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steve Zilles" <szilles@adobe.com> > To: "Richard Ishida" <ishida@w3.org>; "'Jose'" <jose_stephen@cdactvm.in>; > <www-style@w3.org> > Cc: <www-international@w3.org> > Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 7:26 PM > Subject: RE: First Letter Styling for Indian languages > > >> At 06:00 AM 5/5/2006, Richard Ishida wrote: >>>Please see, in connection with this first-letter topic, >>><http://www.w3.org/blog/International/2006/01/20/request_for_feedback_usefulness_of_first>http://www.w3.org/blog/International/2006/01/20/request_for_feedback_usefulness_of_first >> >> Thank you for reminding me to send you some examples of first letter >> usage >> in Hindi (see attached jpg's). These were taken from Hindi newspapers and >> magazines that I picked up in India or had sent to me from India. From >> these, it is clear the Initial Caps are used. >> >> >> Steve >> ===================================== >> Steve Zilles >> 115 Lansberry Court, >> Los Gatos, CA 95032-4710 >> steve@zilles.org >
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