Vedic Accents and Unicode

[Sanjay Kumar]

Just a side note:

The vertical line above a letter (क॑) represents svarita (स्वरित), not udaatta (उदात्त); the latter is never marked and all unmarked letters before स्वरित (क॑) are identified as udaatta.

 

Sanjay Kumar

Faculty of Religious Studies

McGill University, Montreal, Canada

 

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Forwarded on behalf of Kengo Harimoto.

 

Arlo Griffiths

 

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> 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.

> 

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