Re: Theos-World Re: Sanskrit
Jan 05, 2007 11:05 AM
by Ton den Hartog
according to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAST
Sanskrit in the IAST seems to consist of :
A : normal or upper -
Ai
Au
B : normal
Bh
C : normal
Ch
D: normal and lower.
Dh : normal or lower . on D (not on h)
E : normal
G : normal
Gh
H : normal or lower .
I : normal or upper -
J : normal
Jh
K : normal
Kh
L : lower . and upper -
M : normal or lower .
N : normal or upper . or lower . or upper -
O : normal
P : normal
Ph
R : normal or lower . or lower . and upper -
S : normal or upper ' or lower .
T : normal or lower .
Th : normal or lower . on T (not on h)
U : normal or upper -
V: normal
Y : normal
----- Original Message -----
From: Ton den Hartog
To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
Cc: Nicholas
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 6:27 PM
Subject: Re: Theos-World Re: Sanskrit
Found interesting stuff in Wikipedia on Sanskrit and IAST a phonologic version of Sanskrit which is almost pure a-z... IAST is what HPB and GdP uses in all their books afaik. Now find out where those AIST charactera are to be found in unicode or one of the 8-bit (7-bit) iso pages.
Ton
----- Original Message -----
From: Ton den Hartog
To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 5:36 PM
Subject: Re: Theos-World Re: Sanskrit
When I tranferred the text I did not pay any attention to it and my HTML
editor kindly included the text below in the <head> section
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
I assume all files are pure still 1-byte ASCII and not some kind of UTF-8 so
Unicode is the way to go.
Recently I read in a book on XML that Unicode is now more than 64.000 (2^16)
codes... with a total of 90.000. holy cow !
Ton
----- Original Message -----
From: Konstantin Zaitzev
To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 5:12 PM
Subject: Theos-World Re: Sanskrit
--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Ton den Hartog" <tonh@...> wrote:
> Maybe I should use Unicode for all special characters,
> including Greec Hebrew etc
For Hebrew it's probably the only decision. As for Greek, the font
"Symbol" can be used. Some insist on abstruse diacritics in Greek, but
as far I know they had nothing of that kind in ancient times, from
where most terms used by HPB come.
If you want to use all the Sanskrit discritics you surely have to use
unicode but HPB herself didn't necessary use all of that; probably in
modern editions all transliterations are modernized.
The method which I used (through clipboard to MS Word) retains
original font assignations and needs installation of some original
fonts.
> Interesting, this looks like 2 variations already :-(((
Another S (w/reversed ^) is used in Chech, Latvian and some other
languages but not in Sanskrit, so there will no confusion.
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