Re: [aspell-devel] Thoughts on using aspell for Indian language ing

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, address@hidden wrote:

[Sorry if this messes up the Unicode characters, pine is lame and doesn't 
support utf-8]

> The base characters themselves certainly fit. However, if one wishes to
> operate on syllables (made by combining consonants in the base
> character set), the number of these syllables can exceed 256.
>  Here is a short example of just one of the issues that come up when
> treating characters, rather than syllables as the base unit in Hindi.
> Take, for example, the conjunct, "kra", क्र. This is represented
> linguistically, and in UTF-8, as क + ् + र (U0915 + U094D + U0930).
> It makes no sense to swap the "halant" (U094D) with the "ka" or the
> "ra", as that creates a completely different conjunct, and is not a
> mistake that would typically be made. As you suggest, I could just
> include "kra" in the encoding, but, in many Indian languages, the
> 256 available slots are not sufficient for all such conjuncts.

I am going to need a better explanation.

So "kra" is stored in Unicode using three "characters"?  But you want to 
store it using the "kra" conjunct?  Which is not the way it is normally 
stored.  What is the Unicode character for "kra"?