Re: Indian scripts and Unicode

[Leong Kok Yong <ccelky@valentine.irdu.nus.sg>]

hi

I suppose that's because the ISCII standard was done with all Indian
languages in mind and did not suit the use of Tamil computing in the real
world, especially the Web.

Also, i'm not sure what's the follow-up on TamilNadu with the ISCII97 
standard but apparently it did not come to any fruitful conclusion.
Maybe Sujatha can comment on this part...?

As for Singapore contribution towards Tamil standardization effort, we 
are working closely with TamilNadu committe/govt to get things going. The 
current mailing lists' discussion serves just these purposes. We believe 
such joint efforts together with worldwide support from developers in 
other countries will make this a better success.


On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Jeroen Hellingman wrote:

> Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 08:48:50 +0200
> From: Jeroen Hellingman <etmjehe@genesis.etm.ericsson.se>
> To: ccelky@valentine.irdu.nus.sg
> Subject: Re: Indian scripts and Unicode
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Surprising the Tamil Nadu govt. would like to have its own
> standard, as there is already the ISCII standard, which also
> covers Tamil---which is complete and perfectly applicatable.
> 
> Maybe the background is that they want a kind of glyph-encoding
> standard, including all combinations of letters with vowel signs.
> A glyph encoding standard would be welcomed, for it is easy for
> font developers, but in my opinion should not replace a character
> set, which is easier for all other applications. Another issue
> might be the addition of a small number of special purpose characters,
> like I mention in my mailing to the Unicode list, but I cannot see
> the need for another Tamil character set.
> 
> I have tried to connect to the site you mention, but I get time-out
> errors.
> 
> As Tamil is in use by about 10% of the population of Singapore,
> what activities are ongoing in Tamil computing, standarisation,
> etc. in Singapore?
> 
> You can repost this message on the mailing list you mention.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jeroen.
> 
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