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Thought for the Day:
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Swami Omkarananda
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VEDIC
ACCENTS
Unicode and the
Devanagari Script:
The Devanagari script is used for writing classical Sanskrit as
well as Vedic Sanskrit. The Unicode Standard provides codes for
Devanagari characters in the range 0900-097F, which are used for
representing classical Sanskrit, Hindi and Marathi. However, it does not
contain the additional characters needed for representing Vedic
Sanskrit texts. Many of these characters combine with Devanagari
characters and therefore constitute a part of the Devanagari
script.
Proposal to
Unicode:
The International Digital Sanskrit Library Integration project
developed a successful proposal to include Vedic characters in
the Unicode Standard by coordinating its activities with those
of the Script Encoding Initiative at the University of
California at Berkeley, with Evertype--a typesetting firm that
serves as the Irish delegate to the International Standards
Organization's Working Group (ISO WG2)--with the Ministry of
Communications & Information Technology, Department of
Information Technology, Government of India, and with the
Government of India's Centre for Development of Advanced
Computing (C-DAC) in Mumbai.
Those interested may visit the website of The Sanskrit
Library at
http://sanskritlibrary.org/VedicUnicode/
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