From pavanaja at vishvakannada.com  Thu Feb 26 20:39:54 2015
From: pavanaja at vishvakannada.com (Dr.U.B. Pavanaja)
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 08:09:54 +0530
Subject: What is this new chandrabindu for Kannada?
Message-ID: <000601d05236$acdbc520$06934f60$@vishvakannada.com>

I was going through the : Draft Additional Repertoire for Amendment 2 to
ISO/IEC 10646:2014 (4th Edition, Amendment 2)
<http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15028-n4658-pdam23-charts.pdf> .

I found there is one additional Chandrbindu proposed for Kannada at 0C80.
Already one chandrabindu has been added to Kannada at 0C81. What is the
purpose of this new Chandrabindu? Who requested for it?

 

The most important additions needed for Kannada script at present are some
characters (mostly vowels and vowel signs) needed to write Tulu (and Kodava,
Byari, Havyaka, etc) language(s) in Kannada script.

 

Thanks and regards,

Pavanaja

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From samjnaa at gmail.com  Thu Feb 26 20:58:44 2015
From: samjnaa at gmail.com (Shriramana Sharma)
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 08:28:44 +0530
Subject: What is this new chandrabindu for Kannada?
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References: <000601d05236$acdbc520$06934f60$@vishvakannada.com>
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On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 8:09 AM, Dr.U.B. Pavanaja
<pavanaja at vishvakannada.com> wrote:
> I found there is one additional Chandrbindu proposed for Kannada at 0C80.
> Already one chandrabindu has been added to Kannada at 0C81. What is the
> purpose of this new Chandrabindu? Who requested for it?

See http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2014/14153-kannada-chandrabindu.pdf and
http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2014/14166-kannada-candrabindu.pdf for
attestations.

> The most important additions needed for Kannada script at present are some
> characters (mostly vowels and vowel signs) needed to write Tulu (and Kodava,
> Byari, Havyaka, etc) language(s) in Kannada script.

See my FYI doc to the UTC re technical problems with Tulu language
orthography in Kannada script:
http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2012/12203-kannada-tulu.pdf. Pending actual
feedback from Tulu scholars, however, no characters have been proposed
in this document.

-- 
Shriramana Sharma ???????????? ????????????


From naa.ganesan at gmail.com  Thu Feb 26 21:43:29 2015
From: naa.ganesan at gmail.com (N. Ganesan)
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 19:43:29 -0800
Subject: What is this new chandrabindu for Kannada?
In-Reply-To: <000601d05236$acdbc520$06934f60$@vishvakannada.com>
References: <000601d05236$acdbc520$06934f60$@vishvakannada.com>
Message-ID: <CAA+QEUfh1TZMKVaSoRekmrmzwjDt3JUPJ0n+vaExC+RSNAOXNw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 6:39 PM, Dr.U.B. Pavanaja <
pavanaja at vishvakannada.com> wrote:

> I was going through the : Draft Additional Repertoire for Amendment 2 to
> ISO/IEC 10646:2014 (4th Edition, Amendment 2)
> <http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15028-n4658-pdam23-charts.pdf>.
>
> I found there is one additional Chandrbindu proposed for Kannada at 0C80.
> Already one chandrabindu has been added to Kannada at 0C81. What is the
> purpose of this new Chandrabindu? Who requested for it?
>
>
>

There are lot of things getting added to Kannada. Especially is the case
for Malayalam block,
all Grantha material, actually glyph variants are getting added. Now
Malayalam has 3 or 4 virama signs.
Kerala folks have not seen an anusvara above sign, and this Grantha sign
will be in Malayalam block.

Soon, Tamil will have an SMP block that has some 50 or so code points, that
are dead signs in the
sense no one uses them (& it is not clear who used them either). Since we
know only one or two
19th century books tabulate them. Nobody has seen its actual usage. Hence
we requested all of these
dead symbols of fractions etc., to be grouped in SMP block.

best,
N. Ganesan


> The most important additions needed for Kannada script at present are some
> characters (mostly vowels and vowel signs) needed to write Tulu (and
> Kodava, Byari, Havyaka, etc) language(s) in Kannada script.
>
>
>
> Thanks and regards,
>
> Pavanaja
>
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