There were some questions concerning kruti Dev and I am curious (and tried to help).
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However any source I could find about the topic talks of cruti dev fonts and most of them suggest downloads. That’s useless for me. I’m not interested in using that stuff, but in understanding.
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On the other hand a questioner is talking about conversion of cruti Dev to unicode and reverse. This should mean that kruti Dev is a way of coding for characters in a way probably especially adequate for character sets used with devanagari or related fonts.
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Please point me to a source clearly explaining the situation in thoroughly chosen words without mixing up concepts and without making a mess of terms.
https://gist.github.com/tripleee/b82a79f5b3e57dc6a487ae45077cdbd3
In short: »kruti dev font« seems to be a pseudo-font wich is in real a kind of keyboard-makro to translate sequences of ascii-letters into some single-unicode-letter out of the Devanagari-subset.
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Yes. It’s hard. And I still miss the needed information. Got a guess.
A keyboard macro might be used on the system to get a kruti Dev multi-character code for a single stroke on a key showing a character of an alien script. This way may be created a file which our questioner would like to feed into his converter.
Now the multi-character representations need to be separated, recognised and used to get the one character (or its unicode representation) which once shall be printed or ...
BTW: The code you posted gives 171 entries. The mentioned questioner had listed 1286 entries. See attachment:
conversionListAnniruddhaMohod.ods (20.6 KB)
… and filtered [x]case sensitive … [x]no duplicates … the list has 1008 entries!
And also a number of extra-replacements which are applied after the first-processing.
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And entries aren’t sorted according to length, for example lines 35 & 36
That means the character U+0936 will be replaced always, but U+0936&U+093E never.
If we look at the assignments we find at least some kruti Dev codes which are case sensitive. But still this isn’t the most relevant questions.
- How are the codes per character separated?
- How is made sure that longer codes aren’t destroyed by the replacement of shorter ones starting with an identical part when running a conversion in situ?
- (Different category:) Why is such a complicated code still used?
Why isn’t there a standard document defining the system clearly?
Such documents exist for some dfecades now for unicode in general and for utf-8 , utf-16, too.
that means the list should first sorted by »len( column A) descending« and then in alphabetic-order
Yes, but why did the questioner not regard this. He claimed nevertheless that his code worked correctly with selected text.
Imaging you have nothing but a keyboard with english-layout.
Ask the questioner!
Why?
Who would and who could type (from natural memory) the mystic codes on an English keyboard.