Thomas> In the codes from U+0900 to U+0970 I found all the devanagari
Thomas> letters. Unfortunately, I did not find the ligatures(? = compound
Thomas> letters) for this script. So maybe approximately 60 compound
Thomas> letters are missing - and therefore make Unicode in regard to
Thomas> Devanagari pretty useless (do you know ANY devanagari text not
Thomas> using compound letters?).
Thomas> Is it really this way that the devanagari compound letters are
Thomas> missing here or did "I" miss something substantial? Do I have to
Thomas> define some "characters in a user definable area" (or what was it
Thomas> called?) just to use the script?
Thomas> I hope anybody knows more about this,
Internally, compounds are represented like so:
Ksha: U+0915 U+094D U+0937 (KA+VIRAMA+SSA)
Jnya: U+091C U+094D U+091E (JA+VIRAMA+NYA)
Tra : U+0924 U+094D U+0930 (TA+VIRAMA+RA)
Tta : U+0924 U+094D U+0924 (TA+VIRAMA+TA)
The renderer on your system is responsible for identifying compounds and
displaying them in their full or half forms, as appropriate for the context.
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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
Las Cruces, NM 88003
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