From: Nicholas Bodley
Message: 2309
Date: 2004-06-01
> I started working in Windows 98 with njstar and MoTaml software andLack of support for Indic languages is not restricted to Opera, I'm sure!
> 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.
> I don't think the problem is political but maybe more aWith my tiny knowledge of Indic scripts, I wonder whether British-based
> 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.