Hi,
I am from Malayalam Wikipedia (ml.wikipedia - user:Praveenp), and my
language is Malayalam. Consider our one big problem.
After the release of Unicode 5.1.0, there are two kind of encoding for
some characters of Malayalam alphabet (because of reverse
compatibility). This cause serious problems in linking, searching etc in
mediawiki software. Currently Windows 7 is the only operating system
which supports Unicode 5.1.0. (? according to my knowledge), but lot of
third-party tools for writing and reading Malayalam supports new
version. And now large quantity of data in Wikimedia projects are in new
version. It is not possible to link, or search titles encoded in
pre-Unicode 5.1.0 from Unicode 5.1.0 or vice versa. Currently one of our
namespace ???????? (Category) also has one such character, so it is
possible to write ???????? as ?????? which renders same as first but
different in encoding. It causes problem in categorization also.
Is it possible to put some unicode equivalence
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_equivalence> in mediawiki
software? We need urgent help.
Pls check
http://unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.1.0/#Malayalam_Chillu_Characters also
*Visual * *Representation in 5.0 and Prior* *Preferred 5.1
Representation*
1 CHILLU_NN.png 0D23, 0D4D, 200D 0D7A
CHILLU_N.png 0D28, 0D4D, 200D 0D7B
3 CHILLU_RR.png 0D30, 0D4D, 200D 0D7C
4 CHILLU_L.png 0D32, 0D4D, 200D 0D7D
5 CHILLU_LL.png 0D33, 0D4D, 200D 0D7E
*
*Thanks
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