Comments on Mr Ganesan’s Grantha Proposal

Shriramana Sharma 2009-Aug-15 Indian Independence Day SUMMARY: 1) A separate chillu marker should not be encoded since chillus in Grantha carry no semantic difference against virama forms. There are other logical methods of contrasting chillus and virama forms to cater to users’ writing preferences. 2) The danda-s from the Devanagari block and the numerals from the Tamil block should not be disunified as Modern Grantha’s danda-s or numerals are not glyphically or behaviourally distinct. 3) No attestation has been given for a Grantha OM symbol and hence it should not be encoded now. 4) It has not been clearly stated that glyphs proposed for short E and O are not attested for Grantha but are newly suggested based on old forms of writing Tamil. 5) Tamil LLLA, RRA and NNNA should not be disunified but used as-is from the Tamil block.