Talk:Brahmaputra River

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[edit] Evidence for Holocene megafloods in the Tsangpo River

Tsangpo River redirects to this page. Link to Elsevier abstract re: this flood--McTrixie 22:14, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Assamese spelling

My browser shows the Assamese spelling of Brôhmôputrô as different from the Bengali spelling. On my browser, the Assamese spelling has "hôshonto"s/"virama"s (I don't know what the Assamese term for this is) on the "rô"s and not on the "bô" or "tô". Is this a mistake in the spelling, a problem with my browser, or the normal way to write it in Assamese? Thanks. --SameerKhan 00:46, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

This could be because your unicode font does not support the Assamese letters. If you are not using the ekushey fonts, please give them a try. They support the Assamese letters. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Chaipau (talk • contribs) .

I can see the text just fine , perhaps because I'm using fonts from Ekushey? --Ragib 02:20, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Ah, interesting! Yah on Netscape, the Assamese and Bengali spellings are identical, but for whatever reason on Firefox, the Assamese looks wrong. I have the Ekushey fonts, so there must be some issue with my settings on Firefox. I'll check it out. Thanks! --SameerKhan 10:45, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Interesting. Now I can't see the Assamese script correctly. It appears as ব্ৰহ্মপুত্ৰ which is 'ba' 'ৰ' 'hasant' ha-ma (compound letter)-pa-ukar-ta-ৰ - hasant. Does that look clear to anyone (and is that correct)? --Ragib 02:33, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

I think the Assamese and the Bengali should look identical, except the encoding should be different, with different 'ra'. Chaipau 02:39, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

I don't know about Assamese, but in Bangla, bra = ব + র-ফলা (ba + ra-fola). That is, the ra+hasant becomes added below the ba. Is there something similar in Assamese? --Ragib 02:45, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I am still having the same problem as before. Firefox reads the Bengali version as ব্র হ্ম পু ত্র (bô-e-rôfola + hô-e-mô + pô-e-rhoshshukar + tô-e-rôfola). It reads the Assamese version as (I'm using the Bengali way of naming the letters here) ব ৰ্ হ্ম পু ত ৰ্ (bô + rô-e-hôshonto + hô-e-mô + pô-e-rhoshshukar + tô + rô-e-hôshonto), as if it would be pronounced Bôrmhôputôr. Netscape, however, shows both the Assamese and Bengali versions as identical, with rôfolas in the right places. --SameerKhan 05:27, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Bug in firefox? I see it fine with Internet Explorer. Chaipu, do you see the same problem when you view it with firefox? --Ragib 06:17, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] problem on edit

I edited this page but after a while this page went back to its initial state. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kothari.sagar (talk • contribs) .

That's because you copy-pasted copyrighted content taken from Banglapedia. That't not allowed, and I reverted it. --Ragib 19:31, 4 August 2006 (UTC)