On 03/07/2002 02:16:10 PM "James E. Agenbroad" wrote:
>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.
I may be wrong, but I believe that example has < ra, halant, ra,
independent i >. The first ra is the one that transforms into the reph.
- Peter
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