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Proposal to encode the Grantha script in Unicode Shriramana Sharma (jamadagni at gmail dot com), India 2009 Oct 24
Excerpts: The Grantha script is an Indic script descended from Brahmi, still being used in its modern form in parts of South India, especially Tamil Nadu and to a lesser extent in Sri Lanka and other places. Grantha is used to write Sanskrit language, which includes Vedic Sanskrit. It is also used to write the Sanskrit words of Tamil Manipravalam. Tamil does not easily lend itself to write Sanskrit. Grantha on the other hand with its distinct characters for all sounds in Sanskrit enables proper reproduction of the language. Thus Grantha has potential for wide spread use for Sanskrit in Tamil Nadu. Due to this need for Grantha some interested people have created some non-Unicode fonts and software for Grantha with the obvious disadvantages. Therefore the author makes this proposal for inclusion of Grantha in Unicode.
This is all old story. All of the Grantha proposals were analyzed, reviewed and and finally a standard was accepted by Unicode Technical Committee last year. The Unicode block for Grantha standard is listed at:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U11300.pdf