Thursday, November 04, 2004

Unicode is cool

This is my name, typed in Hindi using the INSCRIPT keyboard.

सुरेश वेंकटसुब्रमणियन
and in Tamil:

சுரேஷ் வெங்கடசுப்ரமணியன்


In order to do this earlier, I needed all kinds of LaTeX goo...

Incidentally, this site has all kinds of useful information on entering and reading characters from different languages.

Aside: I just realized that Safari mangles the fonts: Hindi slightly, but the Tamil is completely unrecognizable. I can understand that the mapping table for Tamil is not loaded, but the Hindi rendering has the right map, but is wrongly rendered. Interesting...

8 comments:

  1. The Hindi one looks fine but the tamil just look like a row of boxes all with the same odd glyph inside them, in Safari on my Mac. I agree, unicode is cool, before it came along I was quite sick of using a 256-char western European character set and e.g. never being able to type Jirka Matoušek's name correctly. We'll see how well blogger handles it when I type it now...looks ok in the posting window at least.
    D. Eppstein

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  2. And KDE/Mozilla has surprisingly good support for entering text in such languages and using unicode.

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  3. The Hindi one is slightly wrong: the "i" mark should be on the "n" and not on the "y": what you've written above is effectively "Venkatasubramanayin". My guess is that since the "i" mark appears before the consonant it modifies in Devanagari, you also have to type its code before the consonant's code. I don't know anything about INSCRIPT, I'm just guessing.

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  4. The Tamil one is wrong too.. it reads Suresh Vanketasubramaniyan

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  5. Actually, I am not sure what the Tamil encoding reads.

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  6. ayeeee u have spelt ur name wrong in both the languages.
    in hindi you are manian and not mananian
    in tamil re matra is missing and it is su and not soo.
     

    Posted by hehhe

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  7. ayeeee u have spelt ur name wrong in both the languages.
    in hindi you are manian and not mananian
    in tamil re matra is missing and it is su and not soo.
     

    Posted by hehhe

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  8. ayeeee u have spelt ur name wrong in both the languages.
    in hindi you are manian and not mananian
    in tamil re matra is missing and it is su and not soo.
     

    Posted by hehhe

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