Re: Suggestion for a simple solution of rendering problems of Devanari i matra

As John Hudson has stated, the solution is directly opposed to the basic notion
of the Indic syllable. It is not a viable solution at all and will create more
issues than providing answers,
Best regards,

R.Doctor

On July 21, 2014 at 10:04 AM MAHESH KULKARNI <mdk@cdac.in> wrote:
> I also fully agree with John Hudson. Let us not invent which will create
> mess.
>
> with Regards
>
> Mahesh Kulkarni
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Hudson" <tiro@tiro.com>
> To: "Hariraam" <hariraama@gmail.com>; "indic" <public-i18n-indic@w3.org>
> Cc: "prashant verma" <vermaprashant1@gmail.com>; "Swaran Lata"
> <slata@mit.gov.in>; "Somnath Chandra" <schandra@mit.gov.in>; "Richard
> Ishida" <ishida@w3.org>
> Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2014 11:44 PM
> Subject: Re: Suggestion for a simple solution of rendering problems of
> Devanari i matra
>
>
> > This is a terrible idea. U+094E, which you propose entering before
> > consonant letters or conjuncts as the stem portion of ikar, is itself a
> > left-ordering vowel sign, and would be reordered by Indic shaping engines.
> > So not only would you be affecting the encoding of Devanagari text to
> > obtain a particular display in the absence of a shaping engine, you would
> > be doing so in a way that guarantees the text displays incorrectly when a
> > shaping engine is used. Further, while your method might appear to work in
> > some situations for the particular case of the Devanagari ikar, other
> > Indian writing systems involve left ordering and split vowel signs that
> > cannot be handled with this kind of hack.
> >
> > Whether you like it or not, Unicode has encoded Indian scripts in a way
> > that requires intelligent reordering of glyphs by shaping engines based on
> > string analysis and shaping engine support. The response to this should be
> > to ensure that such support is as widespread and consistent as possible,
> > not to invent hacks that involve mangling text encoding and display.
> >
> > JH
> >
>
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