Re: Issue with script for Kashmiri Localisation

["RKVS Raman" <rkvsraman gmail com>]

Hi,

I checked with our Perso-Arabic research centre ( http://parc.cdac.in/
)  and  they have confirmed that Arabic is sufficient to represent
Kashmiri. The code points  that you mentioned are already available in
Arabic.

I have asked for a supporting standards document which i will
circulate across for your reference.

Best Regards
-Raman



On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Gora Mohanty <gora sarai net> wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:27:23 +0530
> "RKVS Raman" <rkvsraman gmail com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The Kashmiri language can be written in 2 scripts, one is Devnagari
>> and other is Perso-Arabic.
>>
>> Is it possible to have both scripts supported in GNOME l10n for Kashmiri?
>
> Yes, should be possible by adding variants.
>
> The larger problem with Kashmiri is that it needs Unicode
> points for certain vowels that have no equivalent in Arabic.
> This is something that we learnt from folk at the University
> of Kashmir, who are working on a font including these changes.
> A proposal to add these points to the Devanagari script is
> also apparently under discussion with Unicode, and someone
> should start one for Arabic. I am not sure how the current
> translations have been done in the face of such issues.
>
> Regards,
> Gora