Dear Derek,

Thanks for the reply. Sorry I didn't make it clear that I wasn't
asking about font/typeface sets. I am interested in character sets (or
Romanised Pali alphabets). I think PTS has a character which looks
like an 'n' but with a tail like a 'g'. Some character sets don't have
a '.' below 'm', while another have both. I would like to know how are
they different and whether a standard set has evolved.

Dennis

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "Derek" <derekacameron@...> wrote:
>
> Hi, Dennis,
>
> > Can someone here please point me to a webpage or explain how are
> > they different, and which is the standard now?
>
> I was also interested in this question of standards a while back. I
> summarized my findings as follows:
>
> "There are two ways of representing the roman characters with
> diacritical marks we need to display romanized Pali on the internet.
> One way is to use a private encoding system. This is the approached
> adopted by fonts such as VRI, CSX, and Times Normyn. The other way
> is to use the Unicode system of encoding. In Unicode, the ranges of
> characters we need are called Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin
> Extended A, and Latin Extended Additional. All standard fonts now
> support Basic Latin and Latin-1 Supplement, and many support Latin
> Extended A. It is the need for Latin Extended Additional that limits
> our choice. For a list of fonts that support Latin Extended
> Additional, see Alan Wood's Web Site. Note that not all fonts
> provide representations ("glyphs") of all characters in this range.
> For the representation of Pali characters in plain text without a
> special font, the Velthuis system has become standard."
>
> That's from my "Taste of Pali" page at:
>
> http://www.geocities.com/derekacameron/pali.html
>
> Derek.