On Wed, 6 Mar 2002 Peter_Constable@sil.org wrote:
> On 03/06/2002 08:25:18 AM Michael Everson wrote:
[snip]
>
> >In
> >Cham, independent vowels can take dependent vowel signs. In
> >Devanagari, I guess that doesn't occur, but the Brahmic model
> >shouldn't be understood to preclude this behaviour.
> [snip]
> - Peter
A similar but not the same situation is found in the fourth example in
figure 9-3 of Unicode 3.0 (page 214) where an intedpendent vowel has the
"reph" (an abridged form of a the consonant 'ra') above it. Unicode wants
this encoded as consonant + halant + independent vowel. I believe it is
better considered as a consonant + vowel sign combination which happens to
have an odd display and at least one Sanskrit textbook agrees.
Didn't Mark Twain say he didn't think much of a person who could spell a
word in only one way?
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