[Oriya-group] Re: Rebati Glossary

[hrpansari at vsnl.net]

----- Original Message -----
From: Gora Mohanty <gora_mohanty at yahoo.co.in>
Date: Thursday, December 23, 2004 0:23 am
> It is now possible to enter UTF-8 into Linux
> databases,
> so this is what we will be doing in the future.
> Sorting
> Unicode is already possible. 

Fine.

> Please see my much
> earlier
> message to this and other groups on Indic collation,
> and also
> <http://oriya.sarovar.org/ download/indicsort.tar.gz>
> I am still waiting for feedback on sorting issues
> beyond the preliminary tests that I did. 

I downloaded it and thoroughly read. But unable to understand. All Indic scritps are included in it. Not separately for Oriya. 

Lot of problems/confusions are to be solved :

Whether the 0B56 and 0B57 are to be ignored? 0B5F should appear just after 0B2F. 0B71 should appear just after 0B35. Where to place 0B3C, 0B3D, 0B70 or to be ignored? 

In general/practical/logical usages 0B01, 0B02, 0B03 comes after 0B14. But some traditional dictionaries use them at begining wrongly/unscientificaly/blindly following the SANSKRIT SLOKAs/Mantras where the 'OM' comes first. 0B01, 0B02 should not be dealt as representative/modifiers of 'OM'. No general Oriya words/sentences begin with it and never could be as per phonics.  This mis-conception paralysed total Indic computing. As we are the pioneers, we have to set/lay a correct path.

I seen sometimes a simple Oriya collation table at Unicode.org but presently not accessing. I will get back with a simple table.

> As the
> glossary entries are fed into a database which can do
> things like export as CSV, I am not sure what you mean
> by separating on tab-delimted fields.

I mean only Ist column of English words is to be sorted and indexed, 2nd column of Oriya meaning need not, it should just remain linked with 1st.

The present form of glossary is made for opening in Yudit and the English and Oriya colums are separated/delimited with a TAB (HT) character.

Regards,
Hariram