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candidate scripts; a horizontal headline alone cannot distinguish Devanagari from other headline-bearing scripts.", "Check consonant, dependent-vowel and virama combinations, such as क, कि and क्; this establishes a composition pattern but requires letter-identity evidence to distinguish related scripts.", "For encoded text, inspect character identities rather than appearance alone: U+0915 identifies DEVANAGARI LETTER KA, whereas a visually similar or transliterated substitute does not.", "Test script attribution separately from language attribution: identifying Devanagari does not establish that a passage is Hindi.", "Use the character and composition distinctions documented in [Unicode Chapter 12](https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode17.0.0/core-spec/chapter-12/) as reference evidence; an isolated shared punctuation mark is insufficient for attribution." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Script attribution", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "confirmed Devanagari | probable 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encoding | unidentified legacy encoding | image | handwriting", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether recognition, decoding or shaping is the next operation." }, { "name": "Rendering coverage", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Correctly rendered cases / tested cases, with repertoire profile and rendering environment", "why_it_matters": "Makes support claims inspectable for the actual combinations required." }, { "name": "Transcription uncertainty", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Unresolved spans / inspected spans, with span boundaries recorded", "why_it_matters": "Locates readings that require review before consequential reuse." }, { "name": "Transformation fidelity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "exactly reversible | equivalent under declared policy | lossy | untested", "why_it_matters": "Controls whether conversion results can replace the source representation." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify Devanagari spans while retaining competing readings for ambiguous characters.", "Select an orthographic and repertoire profile before validating written forms.", "Inspect vowel signs, virama sequences, conjuncts and modifiers for unsupported or damaged composition.", "Test whether a rendering environment preserves required Devanagari distinctions.", "Transcribe, normalise or transliterate with an explicit fidelity policy and preserved source.", "Choose search and editing behaviour that respects the selected Devanagari writing units." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "script-recognition", "name": "Script recognition", "description": "Establish when a specimen warrants attribution to Devanagari.", "rationale": "Incorrect script attribution sends recognition and interpretation through the wrong rules.", "layers": [ { "id": "diagnostic-letter-evidence", "name": "Diagnostic letter evidence", "description": "Assess letter identities across enough context to distinguish related scripts.", "findings": [ { "id": "devanagari-attribution", "name": "Devanagari attribution", "description": "Record diagnostic characters, competing script readings and the limits of the evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observed letters or encoded characters support Devanagari attribution?", "kind": "definition", "id": "devanagari-attribution-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence excludes Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati or an unresolved historical Nagari form?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "devanagari-attribution-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "script-language-separation", "name": "Script and language separation", "description": "Keep script recognition distinct from language identification and mixed-script segmentation.", "findings": [ { "id": "attribution-boundaries", "name": "Attribution boundaries", "description": "Record where Devanagari attribution applies and whether language identification has independent support.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which spans are Devanagari, another script or shared punctuation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "attribution-boundaries-q01" }, { "text": "What independent evidence supports a language assignment for the Devanagari spans?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attribution-boundaries-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "letter-and-cluster-composition", "name": "Letter and cluster composition", "description": "Describe the written distinctions that recognition and editing must preserve.", "rationale": "An agent needs an account of composed writing units to interpret or alter Devanagari reliably.", "layers": [ { "id": "vowel-and-modifier-roles", "name": "Vowel and modifier roles", "description": "Record how the selected profile interprets vowels and modifying marks.", "findings": [ { "id": "vowel-sign-interpretation", "name": "Vowel sign interpretation", "description": "Require an explicit account of independent vowels, dependent signs and unmarked consonants.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which independent vowels and dependent vowel signs belong to the selected repertoire?", "kind": "definition", "id": "vowel-sign-interpretation-q01" }, { "text": "Which interpretation of an unmarked consonant requires a language-specific pronunciation rule?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "vowel-sign-interpretation-q02" } ] }, { "id": "modifier-distinction-preservation", "name": "Modifier distinction preservation", "description": "Track nukta, anusvara, chandrabindu and visarga without silently treating them as interchangeable.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which distinctions do these marks express in the selected orthography?", "kind": "definition", "id": "modifier-distinction-preservation-q01" }, { "text": "What authority permits any proposed substitution or omission of a modifier?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "modifier-distinction-preservation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "virama-and-conjunct-analysis", "name": "Virama and conjunct analysis", "description": "Record the components and accepted presentation of consonant combinations.", "findings": [ { "id": 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"language-and-period-conventions", "name": "Language and period conventions", "description": "Link script assessment to a documented orthographic context.", "findings": [ { "id": "applicable-writing-convention", "name": "Applicable writing convention", "description": "Record the authority and applicability of the chosen language, regional or historical profile.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which reference establishes the applicable Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Sanskrit or other orthography?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "applicable-writing-convention-q01" }, { "text": "Which spellings or letterforms would be misclassified by applying a different period or language profile?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "applicable-writing-convention-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "special-sign-requirements", "name": "Special sign requirements", "description": "Identify nonordinary repertoire requirements before declaring text support complete.", "findings": [ { "id": "specialist-repertoire-obligations", "name": "Specialist repertoire obligations", "description": "Record whether Vedic marks, extended letters or historical signs require specialist handling.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which specialist signs must be preserved for this use, and which source identifies them?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "specialist-repertoire-obligations-q01" }, { "text": "Which signs cannot yet be interpreted or rendered with the available resources?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "specialist-repertoire-obligations-q02" } ] }, { "id": "digits-and-punctuation-policy", "name": "Digits and punctuation policy", "description": "Record the treatment of Devanagari digits, danda, double danda and other punctuation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which digit and punctuation conventions does the selected profile require?", "kind": "definition", "id": "digits-and-punctuation-policy-q01" }, { "text": "May digits or danda marks be converted for the target use without losing a required distinction?", "kind": "action", "id": 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"kind": "action", "id": "representation-and-equivalence-q02" }, { "text": "Which source sequences cannot be recovered unambiguously?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "representation-and-equivalence-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "shaped-display-assessment", "name": "Shaped display assessment", "description": "Evaluate the displayed result against the intended character sequence and selected profile.", "findings": [ { "id": "devanagari-rendering-fitness", "name": "Devanagari rendering fitness", "description": "Require representative checks of pre-base vowel placement, conjuncts, ra forms and stacked marks.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which required combinations render correctly in the named font and shaping environment?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "devanagari-rendering-fitness-q01" }, { "text": "Does a visible anomaly originate in the character sequence, joiner choices, font coverage or shaping behaviour?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "devanagari-rendering-fitness-q02" }, { "text": "Should the 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time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a Devanagari is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a Devanagari, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a Devanagari, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a Devanagari is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a Devanagari sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a Devanagari, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a Devanagari, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a Devanagari is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a Devanagari from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Devanagari, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a Devanagari, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": 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observation of a Devanagari is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a Devanagari, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a Devanagari, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a Devanagari is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "content-and-access", "name": "Content, encoding and access", "description": "What a Devanagari says, how it is encoded and who may read it.", "rationale": "An informational thing carries content that can be copied, versioned and withheld, none of which its physical carrier explains.", "layers": [ { "id": "content-and-encoding", "name": "Content and encoding", "description": "The content itself, its format and its language.", "findings": [ { "id": "content-and-format", "name": "Content, format and language", "description": "What a Devanagari contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a Devanagari, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the content of a Devanagari, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the content of a Devanagari is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "access-and-rights", "name": "Access, rights and retention", "description": "Who may read, copy or change it, and for how long it is kept.", "findings": [ { "id": "access-rules", "name": "Access rules and retention", "description": "The permissions attached to a Devanagari and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a Devanagari, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about access to a Devanagari, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once access to a Devanagari is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "work-and-manifestation", "name": "Work, version and copy", "description": "Which level of Devanagari a statement is about.", "rationale": "The work, the edition, the file and the copy in hand are four things; rights and content attach to different ones.", "layers": [ { "id": "levels", "name": "Levels of the thing", "description": "Work, expression, manifestation and item, in plain terms.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs at each level", "description": "Which facts hold for the work and which only for one copy.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "For Devanagari, which facts belong to the work itself, which to a version, and which to a single copy?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifier exists at each level, and which one is being cited?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "versions", "name": "Versions, editions and variants", "description": "How versions differ and which is canonical to whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "version-record", "name": "Versions and canonicity", "description": "Differences that matter and who calls one authoritative.", "questions": [ { "id": "version-record-q01", "text": "Which versions or editions of Devanagari exist, and how do they differ substantively?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "version-record-q02", "text": "Who treats which version as authoritative, and for what purpose?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "authorship-and-rights", "name": "Authorship, rights and permitted use", "description": "Who made Devanagari and what may be done with it.", "rationale": "Rights are jurisdictional, time-limited and attached to a level, and an agent that ignores that will copy what it may not.", "layers": [ { "id": "authorship", "name": "Authorship and contribution", "description": "Who contributed what, and in what capacity.", "findings": [ { "id": "contribution-record", "name": "Contributors and roles", "description": "The people and bodies behind it, with their roles.", "questions": [ { "id": "contribution-record-q01", "text": "Who authored or contributed to Devanagari, in what roles, and how is that attested?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "contribution-record-q02", "text": "Where authorship is disputed or anonymous, what is recorded instead?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "rights", "name": "Rights and permissions", "description": "Which rights subsist, where, until when, and what they permit.", "findings": [ { "id": "rights-record", "name": "Rights, term and permitted acts", "description": "The regime in force and what it allows.", "questions": [ { "id": "rights-record-q01", "text": "What rights subsist in Devanagari, in which jurisdictions, and until when?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "rights-record-q02", "text": "Which acts are permitted without further permission, and which must an agent refuse?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a Devanagari came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a Devanagari and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Devanagari, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a Devanagari, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a Devanagari is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a Devanagari is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Devanagari, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a Devanagari, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a Devanagari is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }