Hi,

I am from Malayalam Wikipedia (ml.wikipedia - user:Praveenp), and my language is Malayalam. Consider our one big problem.

After the release of Unicode 5.1.0, there are two kind of encoding for some characters of Malayalam alphabet (because of reverse compatibility). This cause serious problems in linking, searching etc in mediawiki software. Currently Windows 7 is the only operating system which supports Unicode 5.1.0. (? according to my knowledge), but lot of third-party tools for writing and reading Malayalam supports new version. And now large quantity of data in Wikimedia projects are in new version. It is not possible to link, or search titles encoded in pre-Unicode 5.1.0 from Unicode 5.1.0 or vice versa. Currently one of our namespace ???????? (Category) also has one such character, so it is possible to write ???????? as ?????? which renders same as first but different in encoding. It causes problem in categorization also.

Is it possible to put some unicode equivalence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_equivalence in mediawiki software? We need urgent help.

Pls check http://unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.1.0/#Malayalam_Chillu_Characters also

*Visual * *Representation in 5.0 and Prior* *Preferred 5.1 Representation* 1 CHILLU_NN.png 0D23, 0D4D, 200D 0D7A

CHILLU_N.png 0D28, 0D4D, 200D 0D7B 3 CHILLU_RR.png 0D30, 0D4D, 200D 0D7C 4 CHILLU_L.png 0D32, 0D4D, 200D 0D7D 5 CHILLU_LL.png 0D33, 0D4D, 200D 0D7E

* *Thanks

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