Re: Assamese and Unicode.

2017-09-05 Thread Shriramana Sharma via Unicode
On 9/5/17, Martin J. Dürst via Unicode wrote: > The best thing to do is to have lot's of content in Assamese in Unicode. > This will show that things just work. IIUC the problem is with Assamese not accepting the label "Bengali" to "their" script. AFAICS they do not deny that the encoding "just w

Re: Assamese and Unicode.

2017-09-05 Thread Martin J. Dürst via Unicode
Sorry for the long delay of this answer. On 2017/08/24 07:35, David Faulks via Unicode wrote: It appears that the Indian government will submit an 'Assamese' proposal. http://silchar.com/unicode-standard-for-assamese-in-the-offing/ Since everything I know about Assamese Script indicates that i

Re: Assamese and Unicode.

2017-08-23 Thread Michael Everson via Unicode
“The uniqueness of the Assamese script was perhaps unknown to the mainly American experts of Unicode, sources said.” They have never been able to show the difference to anyone in SC2 (which has more than Americans in it), because there is no difference to show. Michael Everson > On 23 Aug 201

Re: Assamese and Unicode.

2017-08-23 Thread James Kass via Unicode
The Eastern Nagari script is used to write Bengali and Assamese, as well as a few other languages. To the best of my knowledge, the existing Unicode encoding includes coverage for the minor typographic differences between Bengali and Assamese text. Any proposal for separate Assamese code points s

Re: Assamese and Unicode.

2017-08-23 Thread Philippe Verdy via Unicode
It could appear as a supplementary chart for the ISCII standard, but when converting to Unicode, it should have no impact except possibly encoding some of their letters in the new chart as pairs of Unicode characters even if one of them would not be necessary in all contexts (it could be a variant