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Osmania script

Posted:
Fri Nov 02, 2012 12:31 am
by Fuadgarase
Hi Mr James,
It would have been better if you could add a virtual Osmania keyboard with Latin alphabet by side on Osmania section as we do don't have Osmania keyboard.
It would have been great achievement and everyone would have tried to learn how to write and read the script and spread the Osmania writings. Also if you are a Computer programmer or know any Computer programmer, It would have been great to create a virtual osmania keyboard program with Latin alphabet by side which is downloadable.
Sorry if I requested too much but that would have helped you and us to go forward and all your efforts of creating Osmania section Would spread around and it would not be for nothing as people will learn how to read and write The Osmania script.
Would you put in that Section the Osmania Alphabet that people could learn easily.
Re: Osmania script

Posted:
Sat Nov 03, 2012 6:43 am
by James Dahl
I have thought about adding an Osmanya keyboard but my database has trouble with Osmanya characters. I added a converter though that transliterates latin character af-Soomaali into Osmanya though:
http://abtirsi.com/transliterate.php
Re: Osmania script

Posted:
Sat Nov 03, 2012 11:22 pm
by Fuadgarase
That is a start, great job and thanks for all the efforts you put into Osmania Script.
There is Slight adjustment needed there like:
If you write Long vowels (AA EE II OO UU) as Upper Case it Doubles the Short vowels.
If you write Long vowels (aa ee ii oo uu) as lower case it writes different characters.
But Short vowels (a e i o u or A E I O U) they are still the same whether you write them as upper case or lower case they show the same characters not changing to Capital letters.
Also the consonant letters they don't change if you try to write them as upper case.
I am wondering the Osmania script does it has a capital letters or not at all.
One more thing, there is not one single website can recognise this Osmania script, so would it be possible to make like a part of browsers, unicode system.
Re: Osmania script

Posted:
Mon Nov 05, 2012 6:50 am
by James Dahl
Well that's not really true, Osmanya is part of the Unicode standard, and you can use it in websites, it's just most web fonts and older browsers do not have glyphs for the Osmanya range, so they show up as unknown characters.
Also only one letter is capitalized, so it's Aadan for instance, not AAdan.
Re: Osmania script

Posted:
Fri Nov 09, 2012 10:20 pm
by Fuadgarase
100% I disagree
Please check them before you come to conclusion
Check upper case
B T X J KH D R S SH DH C G F Q K L M N W H Y
Then Check lower case
b t j x kh d r s sh dh c g f q k l m n w h y
check these
A E I O U
a e i o u
Also check these
AA EE II OO UU
aa ee ii oo uu
give a minute and check then you will see the mistakes
Take into consideration as latin alphabet has the option to write all letters as upper case this osmania also should have that option.
Websites can't recognise this Osmania script it shows as squares all of them
Thank you.
Re: Osmania script

Posted:
Tue Nov 13, 2012 9:39 pm
by James Dahl
I suppose so but then the problem is for instance, acronyms. AARP for instance is a-a-r-p, not aa-r-p. In latin characters, people do not write double vowel capitals. If a sentence begins with the name Aadan, it is written Aadan not AAdan.