Talk:Chennai/Archive 1

message: the population figure was originally given on here in the format xx,xx,xxx - as often used in India (see Crore). That was quite confusing, as I read it as 60 million not 6 million, so I removed the commas. Now it's been changed to the x,xxx,xxx format. What's best? Matthewmayer 18:28, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: As this is the English wikipedia I think we should use what is most common among English speakers worldwide, which is he latter format. Arvindn 04:07, 31 Mar 2004 (UTC)

text: When I first added the info box, I used the Crore format 'coz I'd thought that it must be in localized format. Also, for the time zone, I used GMT even though the GMT is somewhat obsolete as per international standards; but GMT alone is used througout the India. --Rrjanbiah 05:25, 31 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  comma separators... xx,xx,xxx or x,xxx,xxx 

message: சென்னை (சென்னை)
ெசன்ைன (ெசன்ைன)
User:Vrajmohan is keep on changing சென்னை to ெசன்ைன and in the edit summary he wrote "I have tested this on Firefox - this is the correct sequence of characters", which I can't agree. For me it doesn't even work in IE itself. According to my knowledge the thunai ezhuthu has to be added after the mei ezhuthu for Unicode. Tried , DW, and , they all work as per my knowledge. Is there anyone who can solve this issue?? --Rrjanbiah 07:12, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Tamil, like the other Indic language scripts has glyphs which do not appear in the same order as the sounds they represent. Rendering systems and fonts have had to come to terms with this. Prior to Windows XP, Windows was unable to correctly render them. The rendering system of Windows is Called UniScribe. Newer versions of Uniscribe mean better rendering of Tamil and other exotic scripts. The rendering system on Linux is Pango but Mozilla used to do its own rendering - I haven't kept up with changes in this field. The correct order of unicode codepoints for Tamil is the order of the sounds, not the order the glyphs appear in written or printed text. Unfortunately I don't have a written version of the word here but this information should be enough for a Tamil speaker to analyze the Unicode and choose the right one. Chances are Explorer on Windows XP renders correctly using Arial Unicode MS. Firefox on whichever OS may not but it depends on several variabls. — Hippietrail 13:11, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

text: My apologies - I am using Firefox on Windows XP - I could not see any dotted circles - the letters were flipped and I went ahead and changed it. I was ignorant of the fact that the "thunai ezhuthu" should follow the "mei ezhuthu". I have now reverted it --Vrajmohan
Ok, no problem. I was also saying that the thunai ezhuthu was not merged; that is what I mentioned as dotted circled character. I'm also using FF on XP. Just curious, have you seen any browser in which both  "சென்னை" and "ெசன்ைன" are rendered same? --Rrjanbiah 05:15, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

text: Hi, just want to know what font i need to view the tamil text. i see it as hollow boxes. could you also provide a link please? thanks --Susheel c 08:41, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

text: Many thanks Rrjanbiah, unfortunately for me i'm on win 2000. I'll try to find a workaround.thanks--Susheel Chandradhas 16:58, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: &#2970;&#3014;&#2985;&#3021;&#2985;&#3016; Vs. &#3014;&#2970;&#2985;&#3021;&#3016;&#2985;