On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 06:34:15 -0000, suzmccarth <suzmccarth@...>
wrote:

> I started working in Windows 98 with njstar and MoTaml software and
> found it quite good but when I wanted to put up my multilingual
> website I bought a Windows XP laptop(the reason for switching from a
> Mac which I used earlier is sad but too long to revisit) Then I
> found that the language resources on WinXP was amazingly satisfying
> until I tried the Indic languages.

Lack of support for Indic languages is not restricted to Opera, I'm sure!

> I don't think the problem is political but maybe more a
> misunderstanding. Since Indic languages appear to be written with
> an "alphabet", they got alphabetic encoding not syllable encoding.
> My feeling is that Tamil looks like an alphabet and functions like a
> syllabary.

With my tiny knowledge of Indic scripts, I wonder whether British-based
education in India (quiet possibly with no wrong intentions at all) had
some influence toward regarding Tamil (at least) script as something to be
described as an alphabet. Undisciplined dilettante that I am, I think
Tamil is either an abjad or an abugida; many Qalamites know while only 1/4
awake. :) To refute my own suggestion, there must be significant works in
Tamil about its own writing system.

I'm risking cluttering the List, though, so I'll try to be a little more
quiet from here on out.

My regards to all,

--
Nicholas Bodley /*|*\ Waltham, Mass.
Opera 7.5 (3778), using M2