[smc-discuss] Malayalam Chandrabindu - New Addition by Unicode

[Santhosh Thottingal]

2011/1/9 Santhosh Thottingal <santhosh.thottingal at gmail.com>:
> മലയാളത്തിലേക്കു്  പുതിയൊരു അക്ഷരം കൂടി - MALAYALAM SIGN CANDRABINDU  0D01
> യുണിക്കോഡ് പൈപ് ‌‌ലൈനില്‍ (http://unicode.org/alloc/Pipeline.html)
> ആണു് കണ്ടതു്.
> 0D01            MALAYALAM SIGN CANDRABINDU      2010-Nov-01 Accepted
>
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> ഇതേതാണു് അക്ഷരമെന്നു് ആര്‍ക്കെങ്കിലുമറിയുമോ?

More details :
Proposal was prepared by Sriramana Sharma on Oct 10, 2010
The proposal is available here: http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3964.pdf
But link is not working always.So attached the same.

The Malayalam sample containing this character is from
Taittirīyopaniṣat, 2007 (4th edition), Ed: Paṇḍita Śrī La
Anantarāmaśāstrī, Pub: R S Vadhyar and Sons, Kalpathi, Palghat.

Quoting from the proposal:

2a. Has contact been made to members of the user community (for
example: National Body, user groups of the
script or characters, other experts, etc.)?
Yes.
2b. If YES, with whom?
Ministry of IT, Govt of India. Vedic scholars of Andhra Pradesh,
Kerala and Karnataka: Shri Dendukuri
Narayana Haviryaji and Shri Dendukuri Shrirama Haviryaji of Tirupati
for Telugu. Shri Hittilahalli
Mahabaleshvara Bhat and Shri Amai Anantakrishna Ghanapathi of
Bangalore for Kannada. Shri
Ramesh Dravid of Palakkad, Kerala and Dr Sunandan Nambudiri of Chennai
for Malayalam. Also
Vinodh Rajan, a native speaker of Telugu with much experience in Indic
transliteration

2c. If YES, available relevant documents
None specifically. The matter was discussed in person or via telephone.
3. Information on the user community for the proposed characters (for
example: size, demographics,
information technology use, or publishing use) is included?
These characters are used in the Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam scripts
for the writing of
Sanskrit/Vedic. Thus the user community comprises the Sanskrit/Vedic
scholars of Andhra Pradesh,
Karnataka and Kerala.

3. Information on the user community for the proposed characters (for
example: size, demographics,
information technology use, or publishing use) is included?
These characters are used in the Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam scripts
for the writing of
Sanskrit/Vedic. Thus the user community comprises the Sanskrit/Vedic
scholars of Andhra Pradesh,
Karnataka and Kerala.
4a. The context of use for the proposed characters (type of use; common or rare)
Relatively common today for Malayalam. Somewhat rare today for Telugu
and Kannada.


Thanks
Santhosh
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