WX notation

WX notation is used to represent the Devanagari alphabet, used by Hindi, Nepali, Marathi, Bengali and many other Indian languages in ASCII.

Details

<anudev> there r some issues of assigning some letters of hindi with Unicode <anudev> still unresolved <anudev> actually there is the issue of separate vowels and matras <avinesh_> could u give an example <anudev> we don't need the vowels and matras(markers) differently <avinesh_> because for every matra there is a mapping in wx <anudev> like a, aa, ii, u r there <avinesh_> yeah <anudev> but again ी ू े <anudev> are not needed <spectie> matras = ? <avinesh_> matra is the later representation <anudev> matras= markers <anudev> ka <anudev> kaa <anudev> we will write kaa as kA in wx <anudev> in unicode there is a separate place for both A and the marker aa <anudev> we need a same code for both of them, <avinesh_> sry still not getting ur point why should we use wx instead of unicode? <avinesh_> but people only follow one convention either the A or aa <avinesh_> not both <avinesh_> i mean if u see a document <avinesh_> it will generally be consistent <anudev> I mean we write A for both the vowel and matra <avinesh_> oh.. <avinesh_> ok <avinesh_> got it <anudev> but unicode will write differently for A as a vowel and matra <avinesh_> k got it <anudev> so it creates unnecessary complication <spectie> so the problem is that in unicode <spectie> combining characters have a separate code point <spectie> and in WX they are unified to one code point? <spectie> = letter <anudev> yes <spectie> why not use unicode normalisation ?

Examples

• राम = र्+आ+म्+अ (rAma)
• कृष्ण = क्+ऋ+ष्+ण्+अ (kqRNa)

External links

• WX notation: Overview
• NLP: A paninian perspective (page 191)