[Oriya-group] Fwd: Status of Oriya localization and support

[TAKAHASHI Naoto]

Gora Mohanty writes:

>> Don't we need a HALANT after NA?
>> (I mean 0939 093F 0928 094D 0926 0940.)

>  Your version is correct. I think that Mr. Pansari accidentally left out the
>  halant. Incidentally, the original version on the webpage is an acceptable
>  variant, the anusvara being equivalent to the half-na.
 
hrpansari at vsnl.netwrites:

> Yes. Halant was missed accidentally.

> Use of anuswar (U0902), in replacement of Fifth character of five
> vargas consonants was accepted during ISCII standardisation (in
> 1988) just for easiness of typing-out. This is still continueing in
> traditional use.

> Later in Unicode processing, creating Indic Word-net Databases,
> defining a standardised spelling of terms/words, avoiding
> sorting-order problems due to misconduct of multi-variant forms of
> spellings, speech to text processing, the use of anuswar in place of
> ङ्, ञ्, ण्, न्,
> म् was not justified.

Thank you for your confirmation and explanation.  The spellings will
be changed soon.

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TAKAHASHI Naoto
ntakahas at m17n.org
http://www.m17n.org/ntakahas/