Dear Mr. Subramanian:

After extensive mailing list discussions on various versions,
TSCUU version 1.6 was formally launchd in early 1998. Subsequently
when some problems of rendering of third vowel "i" was observed in
many of Microsoft products, TSCII code chart was revised in 2000
to v1.7 where the position of "i" was shifted to a safer place.
Since then there has not been any further revisions-.

In order to file formal registration request for TSCII with IETF ASAP,
recently it has been decided not to get into discussions on further
revision of TSCII.

I presume you are interested in the grantha "sa" that is used to
write siva etc. This letter has been introduced recently in the latest
Unicode release version 4.1. You can download a PDF file on the Unicode
chart content to see the inclusion of three sa there:

http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0B80.pdf

The letter in question is at slot U+0BB6.

anbudan
Kalyan



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Ashok Pennathur Subramaniam <ashoksubra@...> wrote:
> While this discussion is on, I want to bring it to the
> attention of the group, (this I had brought up with
> Thiru Muthu Nedumaran about a year or so ago too!),
> another issue with missing a grantha letter totally.
> Having accepted all the grantha letters that are in
> vogue, there is one particular letter which looks like
> 'Grantha sa" but slightly differently. You can see
> this in many sloka books and music books only; To
> preserve the proper uccharippu, it is important to
> have that letter. Thiru. Muthu had asked me to send me
> some scanned pages which I did. Subsequently got busy
> with my own things and have not visited this group for
> a long while. Now that I am seeign a discussion on the
> subject of Grantha letters I want to bring it to the
> attention of people in this group.
>
> sa Sha Sa are the transliteration equivalents in most
> sanskrit editors for these letters. Can someone let me
> know if this has been discussed in the forum before.
>
> Soundwise, this Sa has distinctive sound which is
> between sa and Sha used in words Sankaram, Sankham
> SaSthram, Sarpam etc.. many uses of this letter are
> there in many of the sanskrit slokas which are written
> in Tamil
>
> --- "Mani M. Manivannan" <mani_m_manivannan@...>
> wrote:
> > --- In tscii@yahoogroups.com, "naga_ganesan"
> > <naga_ganesan@h...> wrote:
> > >
> > > I submit that names Tamil vowel sign u and Tamil
> > vowel sign U
> > > is quite apt, and the tscii document can suggest
> > application on
> > > grantha u/U uyirmey in the notes.
> >
> > While I will wait to comment on these and other
> > proposals once I collect all
> > the responses from various Tamil scholars throughout
> > the world, I would like
> > to point out that as for as the TSCII encoding is
> > concerned, the use of
> > Grantha vowel signs U and UU should be used only
> > with the grantha letters.
> > The entire ukara, uukaara series of Tamil Uyirmeys
> > is already encoded in
> > TSCII and they should NOT be rendered with the
> > Grantha vowel signs U and
> > UU. Doing so will be against the primary goals of
> > TSCII encoding and such
> > usage is not in compliance with the TSCII
> > specification.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Mani M. Manivannan
> >
> >
> >
>
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