Re: NATLANG/Learning: Sanskrit

Roger Mills wrote at 2003-08-17 12:50:52 (-0400)
 > I have a question: when was the form of the letter "a" changed????
 > In my old Sanskrit primer (orig. publ. in 1800s, nth. ed. of 1946)
 > it has a completely different shape, which I'm sure I've also seen
 > in photos of things Indian.
 >
 > Something like (hopefully!)----
 > ____________
 >         __|       |
 >             / \ __|
 >            /    |   |
 >                     |
 >                     |
 >
ASCII art really doesn't work well unless you're using a monospaced
font.  Could you set your client to use such a font (e.g. Courier) and
try again?  (Or you could just use a text editor to compose it in
monospace and then paste it in, if you really can't/don't want to
change your settings.)