[Ilugc] what is the length of an indic string? was Foss Conf Logo-2

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On Nov 19, 2007 6:33 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon at thenilgiris.com> wrote:
>
> no - afaik ordering is correct in Kannada and devnagiri. There was a
> goof up only in Tamil as the governement representative to the
> relevant conference had not done his homework. This is subject to
> correction.

That, or one representative decided that all Indian languages are same
and can have the same ordering. The latter is more likely.

The Tamil unicode encoding table is a pain to see. Anyone with
elementary knowledge of Tamil will reject it outright.

http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0B80.pdf

1. See the blanks after க ச ட த ப. For other Indian languages 3 more
slots were allocated, so tamil gets the blanks.

2. ன comes after  ந before ப. as in Hindi. In tamil ன is the last letter.

An expert can go on with more points.

There are 57 blanks in the range. One can only wonder at the wisdom of
great unifers :-(

Ma Sivakumar

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