Re: [WMASTERS] Design goals of 8-bit Tamil encoding standard (fwd)

[govindasamy <govind@irdu.nus.sg>]

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> Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 23:43:29
> From: "Mani M. Manivannan" <manim@ix.netcom.com>
> To: govindasamy <govind@irdu.nus.sg>, webmasters@tamil.net
> Subject: Re: [WMASTERS] Design goals of 8-bit Tamil encoding standard
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> At 10:32 PM 10/6/97 +0800, govindasamy wrote:
> 
> >Mani, thanks for pulling me in to give my comments.
> 
> Govind, I am delighted to see your participate in these discussions.  I was
> beginning to wonder if anybody in TNSC will ever comment on the discussions.
> 
> >The Draft version of the proposed  version of
> >ISCII -1997, which is prepared by the Deparment of Electronics -
> >committee, will take care of all the things that we are discussing- with
> >slight modification.
> 
> Is the draft standard available for comments at any web site?  The only
> reference to ISCII-97 that I could find on the net was the paper Mr.
> Anbarasan presented at the Singapore conference.

Sorry Mani, the draft report of 1997 is not avilable for public. May be
you can try at this site http://www.ernet.in

> 

> I am unable to reach this site.  Can you point me to an alternate site or

mani you can the paper at > Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 23:43:29
> From: "Mani M. Manivannan" <manim@ix.netcom.com>
> To: govindasamy <govind@irdu.nus.sg>, webmasters@tamil.net
> Subject: Re: [WMASTERS] Design goals of 8-bit Tamil encoding standard
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> At 10:32 PM 10/6/97 +0800, govindasamy wrote:
> 
> >Mani, thanks for pulling me in to give my comments.
> 
> Govind, I am delighted to see your participate in these discussions.  I was
> beginning to wonder if anybody in TNSC will ever comment on the discussions.
> 
> >The Draft version of the proposed  version of
> >ISCII -1997, which is prepared by the Deparment of Electronics -
> >committee, will take care of all the things that we are discussing- with
> >slight modification.
> 
> Is the draft standard available for comments at any web site?  The only
> reference to ISCII-97 that I could find on the net was the paper Mr.
> Anbarasan presented at the Singapore conference.

Sorry Mani, the draft report of 1997 is not avilable for public.
may be you try at this site. http://www.doe.ernet.in

 
> 

> > I am eagerly waiting for his technical documentation of
> >> TamilNet Font's character encoding
> >
> >There is a paper (INET96, Montreal, June 1996) lying in this site (
> >http://aua.am/aua/auacs/inet'96/a5/ ) you will get some kind of
> >technical explanation on  TamilNet font encodings
> 
> I am unable to reach this site.  Can you point me to an alternate site or
> e-mail me the paper?
Mani you can find the paper here:
http://gea01.pangea.org/inet96/a5/index.htm

I will try some of the questions you have raised. 
thanks.
anbudan
Naa govindasamy
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> e-mail me the paper?
> 
> > and his comparison of TamilNet encoding
> >> with alternate encoding conventions.
> >
> >Mani, I have not thought of that. If there is need, I may consider it.
> 
> I believe that it is vital to compare all the 8-bit encoding conventions.
> If we are to create a unified encoding standard we must understand design
> principles behind each of the alternate schemes.  As somebody once
> mentioned, one can come up with an encoding scheme in a few hours if one
> understands all the issues.  And right now any 8-bit encoding convention
> for Tamil appears better than the ISCII-97.
> 
> Mani M. Manivannan
> Fremont, CA, USA.
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