Kenneth> I would add to Kamal Mansour's elegant reply the additional note
Kenneth> that a good reason to use the Indic dependent vowels as encoded
Kenneth> in Unicode (and described in the Unicode discussions of
Kenneth> Devanagari and Tamil) is so that the text you produce is
Kenneth> interchangeable and interpretable by other Unicode
Kenneth> implementations. Arbitrary departures from the recommended text
Kenneth> models for various scripts might make a particular implementation
Kenneth> easier in some respects, but it will result in text which may not
Kenneth> be interpreted correctly by other implementations that follow the
Kenneth> guidelines on the text model.
Thanks All. The note was ill-considered because I knew better. Too damn
tired these days.
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Mark Leisher
Computing Research Lab Here is to a good rule of thumb:
New Mexico State University Too clever can be dumb.
Box 30001, Dept. 3CRL -- Ogden Nash
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