[INDOLOGY] Antw: Re: EasyUnicode for a Windows computer?

Sat Aug 17 12:52:56 UTC 2019

For windows and roman letters:

As far as I my expierence goes: Using only (not combined) 
UNICODE-letters there are no problems for indexing all your files. The 
UNICODE-fonts include all diacritical signs  within 1 letter (e.g. ś) 
for studies on classical indological texts (vedic accents - I do not know).
Whenever I built up letters with diacritical marks (combining two 
UNICODE signs e.g. s + ´) the indexing process did not work properly.

Indexing all your files is important for any search beyond searching in 
one file only.

Best

Heiner

Am 17.08.2019 um 14:45 schrieb David Mellins via INDOLOGY:
> It’s very clear to me that we need to arrive at a Sanskrit based 
> operating system where the most basic coding instructions are 
> communicated in Paninian Sanskrit!
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Aug 17, 2019, at 8:18 AM, Raik Strunz via INDOLOGY 
> <indology at list.indology.info <mailto:indology at list.indology.info>> wrote:
>
>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>> in this regard I only want to bring in some aspects of building up 
>> and enhancing an individual keyboard layout.
>>
>> Working on Mac I have set up a layout years ago during my Bachelor 
>> studies with Ukelele. During my Master studies, this got enlarged and 
>> modified while working with Indo-european languages out of the 
>> necessity to display more and more diacritics correctly as well as 
>> Unicode-safe. Now, this grown keyboard layout is mainly based on 
>> the Combining Diacritical Marks block (U+0300..U+036F) together with 
>> the simple letters, keeping it easy and intuitive – for me and 
>> according to my writing habits – to create diacritics of almost any 
>> kind, also working perfectly in TextEdit, Pages, and most of the time 
>> in XeLaTeX. That is the big advantage of building a personal layout. 
>> One will also get used to the process of adding glyphs, although at 
>> the very beginning it can and highly possibly will be quite time 
>> consuming.
>>
>> The only disadvantage to this system in my view can be, that there 
>> are different ways to have e.g. an Unicode-safe /ṇ /– one as a 
>> single-built /ṇ/ U+1E47 (Latin Extended Additional), another as the 
>> combined solution /n/ U+006E (Basic Latin) +  ̣U+0323 (Combining 
>> Diacritical Marks), a third based on a command \d{n} in pdfTeX. 
>> Afaik, these three won’t be interpreted as the in fact same sign 
>> whilst at first glance looking the same, but this is also a minor 
>> issue regarding word search in a document either .pdf or raw. 
>> Nevertheless, in my view the combining solution helps creating a 
>> broader variety of diacritics.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>>
>> Raik Strunz
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> >>> James Hartzell via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info 
>> <mailto:indology at list.indology.info>> 15.08.19 13.08 Uhr >>>
>> Thanks Richard, Harry, Malcolm, Robert for your suggestions—I will 
>> experiment and if I can solve it I will report back
>>
>> Cheers
>> James
>>
>> > On 15 Aug 2019, at 11:34, Robert Zydenbos via INDOLOGY 
>> <indology at list.indology.info <mailto:indology at list.indology.info>> wrote:
>> >
>> > There is also John Smith's keyboard layout for Windows at 
>> http://bombay.indology.info/software/fonts/induni/index.html 
>> (however, I have no experience with it myself, being a Mac and Linux 
>> user).
>> >
>> > RZ
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Prof. Dr. Robert J. Zydenbos
>> > Institute of Indology and Tibetology
>> > Department of Asian Studies
>> > Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (University of Munich – LMU)
>> > Germany
>> >
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