Re: Betreft: Re: Virama (was: New and Improved Script....)
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, March 21, 2000, 15:57 |
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BP Jonsson wrote:
> I guess you could use something much like a
> Roman period, given that period in Indic scripts is a vertical line | --
> called _da.n.da_ 'stick' in Sanskrit and _shad_ [S_jE:] in Tibetan.
The Unicode book says that danda is mostly confined to traditional texts
nowadays, with Western punctuation used for secular writing.
> BTW I found that traditional Malayalam script is essentially the same as
> Grantha. HTH!
Not too surprising, since M. and Tamil split only about 1000 years ago,
which is recent for the world of Indic scripts.
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