This tutorial will use examples to provide you with an in-depth understanding of the characteristics of Indic scripts. It will also briefly describe some of the practical issues that should be borne in mind for Unicode-based implementation of these scripts. Scripts covered include Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam.

Outline:

Introduction

Historical background
Sounds of indic scripts

Characteristic script features

Direction & positioning
Consonants & inherent vowels
Vowel signs
Independent vowels
Consonant clusters
Nasalisation
The visarga
Numbers

Implementation notes

Character sets
Combining characters
Variant glyph forms

While the tutorial is perfectly accessible to beginners, it has also attracted very good reviews from people at an intermediate and advanced level, due to the breadth of scripts discussed. No prior knowledge is needed.