[INDOLOGY] Why not HK?

Thu Mar 6 00:15:36 UTC 2025

I think seeing K???a for Kṛṣṇa is also an artefact of reading the INDOLOGY
list postings in digest form, on some email clients.  If you set your
subscription to send you individual messages, you may find this problem
disappears.

Best,
Dominik Wujastyk
INDOLOGY list <http://indology.info> committee member
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On Wed, 5 Mar 2025 at 10:17, Lubin, Tim via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear Giulio,
>
> I would add that if you are seeing only ????? in place of letters with
> diacritical marks, it is either because you do not have any Unicode fonts
> installed on your devices (which is hard to understand given that many come
> as standard software on systems nowadays), or — if the problem is only in
> emails — that you mail system is not set up to accommodate them (also a
> rare problem nowadays, I would think).  I suggest you check your settings.
>
> Nowadays, it is usually easy to set up your keyboard (keystroke
> assignments) to type in IAST or any other transliteration scheme pretty
> easily.  Certainly I do so constantly on my Mac.  In that context, why
> persist in working only with HK, which was a workaround for ASCII-limited
> encoding?
>
> Best,
>
> Tim Lubin
>
>
>
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>
>
> *From: *INDOLOGY <indology-bounces at list.indology.info> on behalf of
> "Dominik A. Haas" <dominik at haas.asia>
> *Date: *Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at 6:56 AM
> *To: *INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>
> *Subject: *Re: [INDOLOGY] Why not HK?
>
>
>
> Dear Giulio (if I may),
>
> Let’s not leave your question unanswered. In my experience, the vast
> majority of colleagues don’t like to read a text with too many mixed upper
> and lower case letters. They may use HK for certain software purposes, but
> never for reading. There is also the problem that you cannot adapt words in
> HK to the spelling of a language written with Latin letters (e.g., proper
> names such as Śaṅkara would no longer be so easily recognizable). Let’s
> not even start with what autocorrect does in such cases.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Dominik
>
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> Am 04.03.2025 um 09:21 schrieb Giulio Geymonat via INDOLOGY:
>
> Dear list members,
>
> I refrained from this question since I've been following this very
> interesting list (a couple of years) feeling that it wasn't the case to ask
> such a banal question in such an high-profile list. But today I dare to ask
> you very knowledgeable people (I really learned a lot of things since I am
> following this list and I am really grateful to all who wrote on the many
> interesting points tackled), why don't you use Harvard-Kyoto?
>
> It would be so much easier for me to follow what interests me the most in
> all this (and what I might have a chance to contribute in -- a very slight
> chance indeed, to be frank), that is your interpretations of sanskrit
> passages.
>
> I have no problem in reading Gretil Titus all the dictionary the
> mahAbhArata etc. but your passages come to me full of question marks: I
> know it's me who must be like a troglodite of fonts, but it is also that I
> love Harvard-Kyoto and I don't understand what can be found wrong with it.
>
> Do you find something wrong with HK? And if not, why don't you use it in
> the emails?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Giulio Geymonat
>
>
>
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