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Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 13:00:11 -0000
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Subject: Coimbatore poem (u, uu uyirmey letters modified)
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Dear List,
Taking a look at the slots occupied by Tamil characters
in TSCII 1.7 encoding for Tamil,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tscii/files/charset17_a.gif
we observe that the "uyirmey" characters with the
vowels, "u" (short u) and "uu" (long u) occupy many
number of slots. Important to note that this is not how other "uyir mey"
characters are made in Tamil at all. Typically, a separate
character is used for creating tamil uyirmey letters
with vowels, aa, e, ee, ai, o, oo, au. To a significant
extent this is true for uyirmey with i and ii as well.
In order to reduce the number of characters to
write the entire Tamil, the breaking of the present
u , uu series of uyirmey characters is necessary.
This will bring uniformity with other tamil letters.
Not only that. It takes far less time to learn
to write Tamil. If we do break the u and uu uyirmey
letters, then we have only about 40 separate characters
in all to write the entire Tamil language. This is even
less than the Roman letters needed to write
english (52 characters, half of which 26 is capital letters).
One suggestion as a choice for a separate u, uu character to
generate u-uu uyirmey, is given at the top half
of the page:
http://home.swbell.net/speri/ganesan/ezhuththu.jpg
Using Dr. Kalyan's modified Mylai font, Kannadasan's poem on Coimbatore
is given as a PDF file in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S_India/message/54
Note that new u, uu series of uyirmey characters is employed.
For the current form of u, uu series of uyirmey,
take a look at the attached PDF file of the same poem:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S_India/message/43
Does the suggestion for new u, uu letters look aesthetically pleasing?
Any improvements can be sent to me as scanned
JPEG file to me please.??
Or, is there any other forms that can be considered?
Many thanks for your thoughts,
N. Ganesan
PS: The TestMylai font used is only a first version.
It's being improved upon.
