CSX+ (was: Vagaries of Swadesh Lists)

From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 48286
Date: 2007-04-07

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
> On 2007-04-07 18:25, Roger Mills wrote:
>
> > ... A quite exhaustive listing of Indic loans is
> > online at: http://crcl.th.net/indic/indo.htm . Unfortunately, the
Skt.
> > transliterations display poorly, both in IE and Firefox :-(
>
> It displays well if you download and install the required font
(Times_CSX+).

How widely used is the Classical Sanskrit eXtended (CSX+) encoding?
It has not been registered at IANA as a character set (procedure at
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2278.txt ), so browsers can't be told what
encoding to use, and one has to use a hack font. It was a bit of a
struggle to display the Unicode translations (
<http://homepage.ntlworld.com/richard.wordingham/10646/CSX+.htm> -
reasonbly well-rendered PDF at
<http://homepage.ntlworld.com/richard.wordingham/10646/csx_dp.pdf> ).
There was some discussion of how to display the character set on the
Unicode Indic list in July 2006. I was told by Microsoft that the
display by general purpose fonts would be much improved in Windows Vista.

Richard.