Jskad/source/org/thdl/tib/text/tshegbar/UnicodeConstants.java

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package org.thdl.tib.text.tshegbar;

/** Provides handy Extended Wylie-inspired names for Unicode
 *  characters commonly used to represent Tibetan.  The consonant that
 *  the Extended Wylie text "ka" refers to is named EWC_ka as in "The
 *  Extended Wylie Consonant ka", the vowel represented in Extended
 *  Wylie by "i" is EWV_i, and so on.  There is at least one exception
 *  to the naming scheme, but exceptions are well-commented.
 *
 *  @see org.thdl.tib.text.tshegbar.LegalTshegBar
 *
 *  @author David Chandler */
public interface UnicodeConstants {

    /** for those times when you need a char to represent a non-existent character */
    static final char EW_ABSENT = '\u0000';

    // the thirty consonants, in alphabetical order:

    /** first letter of the alphabet: */
    static final char EWC_ka = '\u0F40';

    static final char EWC_kha = '\u0F41';
    static final char EWC_ga = '\u0F42';
    static final char EWC_nga = '\u0F44';
    static final char EWC_ca = '\u0F45';
    static final char EWC_cha = '\u0F46';
    static final char EWC_ja = '\u0F47';
    static final char EWC_nya = '\u0F49';
    static final char EWC_ta = '\u0F4F';
    static final char EWC_tha = '\u0F50';
    static final char EWC_da = '\u0F51';
    static final char EWC_na = '\u0F53';
    static final char EWC_pa = '\u0F54';
    static final char EWC_pha = '\u0F55';
    static final char EWC_ba = '\u0F56';
    static final char EWC_ma = '\u0F58';
    static final char EWC_tsa = '\u0F59';
    static final char EWC_tsha = '\u0F5A';
    static final char EWC_dza = '\u0F5B';
    static final char EWC_wa = '\u0F5D';
    static final char EWC_zha = '\u0F5E';
    static final char EWC_za = '\u0F5F';
    /** Note the irregular name.  The Extended Wylie representation is
        <code>'a</code>. */
    static final char EWC_achen = '\u0F60'; /* DLC NOW is this achen or achung? achen is EWC_a, right? comment it.  replace EWC_achen everywhere if you change it. */
    static final char EWC_ya = '\u0F61';
    static final char EWC_ra = '\u0F62';
    static final char EWC_la = '\u0F63';
    static final char EWC_sha = '\u0F64';
    static final char EWC_sa = '\u0F66';
    static final char EWC_ha = '\u0F67';
    static final char EWC_a = '\u0F68';

    /** In the word for father, "pA lags", there is an a-chung (i.e.,
        <code>\u0F71</code>).  This is the constant for that little
        guy. */
    static final char EW_achung = '\u0F71';

    /* Four of the five vowels, some say, or, others say, "the four
       vowels": */
    /** "gi gu", the 'i' sound in the English word keep: */
    static final char EWV_i = '\u0F72';
    /** "zhabs kyu", the 'u' sound in the English word tune: */
    static final char EWV_u = '\u0F74';
    /** "'greng bu" (also known as "'greng po", and pronounced <i>dang-bo</i>), the 'a' sound in the English word gate: */
    static final char EWV_e = '\u0F7A';
    /** "na ro", the 'o' sound in the English word bone: */
    static final char EWV_o = '\u0F7C';

    
    /** subscribed form of EWC_wa, also known as wa-btags */
    static final char EWSUB_wa_zur = '\u0FAD';
    /** subscribed form of EWC_ya */
    static final char EWSUB_ya_btags = '\u0FB1';
    /** subscribed form of EWC_ra */
    static final char EWSUB_ra_btags = '\u0FB2';
    /** subscribed form of EWC_la */
    static final char EWSUB_la_btags = '\u0FB3';
}