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by jsv
Sat Jan 16, 2010 8:55 am
Forum: Pāli
Topic: Dhamma written in ten different scripts
Replies: 51
Views: 18313

Unicode and touching letters in Sinhala

especially since Unicode doesn't support this as far as I know Unicode itself does support this already, but most applications still don't. Here are some Unicode strings for you to test: Dhamma: ධම‍්ම Buddha: බුද‍්ධ sakyaputto: සක්‍යපුත‍්තො On my linux machine I can see touching letters rendered co...
by jsv
Fri Jan 15, 2010 7:24 pm
Forum: Pāli
Topic: Dhamma written in ten different scripts
Replies: 51
Views: 18313

Dhamma written in Sinhala (conjoined consonants)

Also, when Pali is written in Sinhala, special conjuncts are used used. i.e in Dhamma - both ma ma touch each other to show they are a single consonant cluster. That's the closest I can get to the correct rendering: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/719028/dhamma.png I have been having a hard time getting t...
by jsv
Sat Jan 02, 2010 12:44 pm
Forum: Pāli
Topic: Pali Resources
Replies: 115
Views: 226160

audio courses

Audio lectures by Bhikkhu Bodhi (a course based on this textbook).

Pali lessons from Buddhist Digital Library and Museum, Taiwan. Based on Dhammapada, with sound files. Some parts of the course currently seem to be broken, but the main body is still here.