Re: sa-iast.mim: About the updates in https://github.com/indic-transliteration/m17n-db-indic

[Dominik Wujastyk]

Thanks, everyone.  If I understand correctly, sa-iast will stay more or less unchanged, and sa-iast-vedic will have the recently-discussed vedic accent keys?  Sounds very good to me.  Thank you!

Dominik

On Sat, 26 Aug 2023 at 15:32, Mike FABIAN <mfabian@redhat.com> wrote:

"विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)" <vishvas.vasuki@gmail.com> さんはかきました:

> On Thu, 24 Aug 2023 at 21:40, Mike FABIAN <mfabian@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> "विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)" <vishvas.vasuki@gmail.com> さんはかきました:
>>
>> > This seems reverse compared to others! should be fixed.
>>
>> Like this?:
>>
>>     +  ("``" "̀") ; U+0300 COMBINING GRAVE ACCENT
>>     +  ("''" "́") ; U+0301 COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT
>>     +  ("a''" "á") ; U+00E1 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE
>>     +  ("i''" "í") ; U+00ED LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH ACUTE
>>     +  ("u''" "ú") ; U+00FA LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH ACUTE
>>     +  ("uu''" "ṹ") ; U+1E79 LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH TILDE AND ACUTE
>>     +  ("U''" "ṹ") ; U+1E79 LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH TILDE AND ACUTE
>>     +  ("e''" "é") ; U+00E9 LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
>>     +  ("o''" "ó") ; U+00F3 LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH ACUTE
>>     +  ("a``" "à") ; U+00E0 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH GRAVE
>>     +  ("i``" "ì") ; U+00EC LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH GRAVE
>>     +  ("u``" "ù") ; U+00F9 LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH GRAVE
>>     +  ("uu``" "ũ̀") ; U+0169 LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH TILDE U+0300
>> COMBINING GRAVE ACCENT
>>     +  ("U``" "ũ̀") ; U+0169 LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH TILDE U+0300
>> COMBINING GRAVE ACCENT
>>     +  ("e``" "è") ; U+00E8 LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH GRAVE
>>     +  ("o``" "ò") ; U+00F2 LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH GRAVE
>>
>>
> This looks good.
>
>
>
>> Looking at this, I am beginning to think that Dominik Wujastyk’s idea to
>> put that into a separate file sa-iast-vedic.mim is probably better.
>>
>> Because one might want to use ' as apostrophes or single quotes and one
>> might also want to use ` to quote something.
>>
>>
>>
> I agree. Since we already got this far, it would be good to have
> this sa-iast-vedic file - once upon a time I used this more frequently; and
> it is not unlikely that others would too (given that vedic accents are
> pervasive; and vedas + sanskrit grammar are a perennial topic of interest).

OK, I made a pull request to move your version with the vedic accents added to sa-iast-vedic.mim:

https://github.com/indic-transliteration/m17n-db-indic/pull/21

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Mike FABIAN <mfabian@redhat.com>
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