[Peter T. Daniels]

Normally I have no problem seeing non-roman characters in my email,
but here I see what are probably Unicode code point numbers.

Before you start this quixotic enterprise, are you certain that every
Unicode character has an equivalent in ISCII (which I know nothing
about)? Does ISCII have a separate character for every possible
conjunct akshara with every possible matra, the way Unicode Korean has
a separate character for every possible syllable block?

That seems unlikely ...

Does ISCII automatically form conjuncts, or do you have to input the
reduced form alongside the full form of the base character?

In Word, you should be able to search any sequence of consonants and
vowels (whether or niot they are combined), and you might even make
some shortcuts using wildcards, but it isn't entirely clear what
you're trying to do.

On Jan 19, 4:22*am, Raghav Das
wrote:
I hope that the Devanagari characters in the following message are
displayed properly.

For example, if I want to search (using Find and Replace options of
Microsoft Word) for the character म within the glyph
मि. Then how do I do it?

I mean to say,

IF there is a Devanagari glyph (which is displayed as single character)
मि, WHICH is composed of the following two Unicode
Characters:

Total 2 characters "मि"

In HEXADECIMAL

92Eh (म) 93Fh (ि)

In DECIMAL

2350 (म) 2367 (ि)

AND I search for the character 92Eh (म) by typing it in the "Find"
box of Microsoft Word, then, although this character is present in the
Word file, MS Word doesn't find it-----as if it is not there.

However, when the character 92Eh (म) is NOT followed by the sign
of the VOWEL [i.e. when it is NOT followed by 93Fh (ि) ], then
Microsoft Word easily finds it.

But, as mentioned above, it doesn't find it when it is followed by a
VOWEL-sign such as 93Fh (ि).

QUESTION:

How to find the character like 92Eh (म) EVEN WHEN it is followed
by a vowel sign such as *93Fh (ि) using FIND (SEARCH) features of
Microsoft Word?

It is very important for me to know the answer for this question because
I want to write a Word macro to convert the DEVANAGARI UNICODE text to
the DEVANAGARI TEXT in the ISCII encoding [using my method].

Thanking you, in advance.

--
Raghav Das