[indic] Re: Fwd: Re: Displaying indic vowel sign independant of a consonant

[cibu cj]

Unfortunately Malayalam may not be that advanced :)
Malayalam script does not use Avagraha for this purpose. Rather usage is as
shown by Santhosh's unicode strings without dotted circle. I am copying that
below:

ഹാാാാാ... (laughter/showing pain)

േേേേഠ... (sound of a gun)

പോകൂൂൂൂൂൂ! (Go!)

As Rajeev said, if Microsoft has it documented (I haven't seen it) and that
is agreeable to rest, we should get it adopted in unicode as well.

Cibu

2008/7/13 Hariram <hariraama at gmail.com>:

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>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Hariram <hariraama at gmail.com>
> Date: Jul 14, 2008 10:40 AM
> Subject: Re: [indic] Re: Displaying indic vowel sign independant of a
> consonant
> To: Santhosh Pillai <sanpil at microsoft.com>
>
> For extending a Vowel Sign(sound) in Indic the Avagraha U093D (or 0B3D or
> xx3D) is used since centuries.
> Sometimes two or three Avagraha seen used in Sanskrit & Vedic Texts. Vowel
> sounds also found 3 types Hrsva (ह्रस्व), Deergh(दीर्घ) and Pluta(प्लुत).
>
> In English to write "Ahhhh…", "Wooo Hooo", "Eeee" Vowels repeated, because
> there is no Avagraha like facility/system. This type repeating vowels will
> confuse, can't give perfect sounds. वूऽऽऽ is never equal to वूऊऊऊ.
>
> Indic Scripts are much more advanced and scientific than English/Latin.
>
> -- Hariram
>
>
>  On 7/13/08, Santhosh Pillai <sanpil at microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>>  This works if we only want to eliminate the preceding circle in one of
>> vowel-sign/anusvaram/visargam.
>>
>> How do we get to write if two of these are adjacent to one another?
>>
>> Example: If we want the anusvaram is preceded immediately by the vowel
>> sign, the ZWJ + ാ + ZWJ + ം does not seem to work.
>>
>> Example:
>>
>>
>>
>> Also, it is common in English to write "Ahhhh…", "Wooo Hooo", "Eeee" to
>> express certain emotions. The way most of the similar expressions are done
>> in Malayalam is to extend the vowel sound at the end of a word, or extending
>> the vowel at the end of a single stand-alone word.
>>
>>
>>
>> For example,
>>
>>
>>
>> ഹാാാാാ... (laughter/showing pain)
>>
>> േേേേഠ... (sound of a gun)
>>
>> പോകൂൂൂൂൂൂ! (Go!)
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>


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