Dear Frank,

From my experience with various Pali & Sanskrit dictionaries, "ṁ" and "ṃ" are
mutually exchangeable, i.e. a matter of preference of the book author or the
publisher.

Best regards;
Peter




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From: frank <fcckuan@...>
To: Pali@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, February 15, 2011 9:29:36 PM
Subject: [Pali] pali alphabetical order



I found a piece of perl code for sorting unicode utf-8 format text. I
adapted it slightly for pali unicode.
I ran it on Ven. BKh's list, and it seems to be working as intended, but
I have a couple of questions.

I used the pali alphabetical order from wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pali
The Pali alphabetical order is as follows:

* a ā i ī u ū e o ṁ k kh g gh ṅ c ch j jh ñ ṭ ṭh ḍ ḍh ṇ t th d dh n p ph
b bh m y r l ḷ v s h

1) I'm puzzled by "ṁ". Is that the same as "ṃ"?
2) For the code that does the alphabetizing, I removed all the pali
alphabet characters represented by double characters ending in "h". That
is I removed kh, gh, jh, etc. Since single "h" comes at the end of the
list, I believe things should sort correctly just by comparing one
character at a time.

-Frank







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