Vedic Accents and Unicode

[Ferenc Ruzsa]

Yes, combining diacritics are a possible solution, but it is much nicer and 
more stable (and easier to convert) when we have a single character 
representing one phoneme (letter).

Ferenc
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Ferenc Ruzsa, PhD
associate professor of philosophy
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
e-mail: ferenc.ruzsa at elte.hu

-----Eredeti üzenet----- 
Feladó: "Arlo Griffiths" <arlo.griffiths at LET.LEIDENUNIV.NL>
Címzett: <INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk>
Elküldve: 2006. március 23. 12:22
Tárgy: Fwd: Vedic Accents and Unicode


> Forwarded on behalf of Kengo Harimoto.
>
> Arlo Griffiths
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: Kengo Harimoto <kengoharimoto at mac.com>
>> Date: March 23, 2006 10:59:33 AM GMT+01:00
>> To: Arlo Griffiths <arlo.griffiths at let.leidenuniv.nl>
>> Subject: Re: Vedic Accents and Unicode
>>
>>> But in the present Unicode standard (as far as I know) the  underring 
>>> characters are not defined.
>>>
>>
>> They have  COMBINING RING BELOW (unicode 0325/UTF8 CCA5).  I can  produce 
>> l̥ and r̥ using the latter.  Some fonts, applications, or  displaying 
>> systems may not display properly, but that's a different  issue.
>>
>> As for Devanagari Vedic accents, there are at least Unicode 0951 
>> (DEVANAGARI STRESS SIGN UDATTA) like in क॑ and 0952 (DEVANAGARI  STRESS 
>> SIGN ANUDATTA) क॒.
>>
>> -- 
>> kengo harimoto
>