RE: Tamil C(S)ivamayam
"Bala" <[email protected]>
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Hi, Thank you for the reply. Personally I think using the 0BF3 for civamayam and Day sign will be better. Yes I will write a proposal with explaining the meaning different between civamaym and day sign (including supportive evidence). I will write through Sri Lanka ICTA. Mean time I will take 1 week more to make sure there is no difference in shapes. (Hope this thread will remain open) Thank you Kind regards Bala -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Doug Ewell Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 12:54 PM To: Unicode Mailing List Subject: Re: Tamil C(S)ivamayam Bala (Sri Lanka) wrote: > The civamayam is very commonly used in Tamil text. In present days > compare to day sign and Tamil number 2, the civamayam symbol used very > frequently. This been used in start of books, almost 90% of the Tamil > wedding cards and so on. > > But when I am looking at the shape I cannot see the difference between > Tamil day sign and civamayam. Neither can I, though both are clearly different from the digit 2. > (1) Why there is no code point to the civamayam symbol in Unicode? > Is that because of the same/similar glyph? Perhaps. Has anyone ever proposed encoding it separately? Is it encoded separately in any other coded character encoding? > Or Tamils missed out to list to Unicode? I wouldn't recommend going down this path. > (2) Are we expected to use the 0BF3 - Tamil Day sign for civamayam > as well? In American English, the same coded character, U+002E, is used: * as a sentence terminator * as a marker for certain abbreviations * as a decimal separator * as part of an ellipsis indicating continuation * as a separator between parts of a URL or IP address * as part of a "dotted leader" in a table of contents * and probably for other purposes as well. If you wish to propose disunifying the civamayam symbol from U+0BF3, you will probably need to explain how that situation differs from the U+002E situation. -- Doug Ewell * Fullerton, California, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14 NEW E-MAIL --> dewell at roadrunner dot com NEW URL --> http://home.roadrunner.com/~dewell http://www1.ietf.org/html.charters/ltru-charter.html http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages ^