Some of Andy's assertions

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>1. The sequence 'Vowel+Virama+Ya...' is illogical to scholars of
>Bengali and indeed Indic languages in general.

I refuted this yesterday by indication that this usage is an innovation.

>2. Such sequences are not semantically equivalent to the intended

... sentence fragment.

>3. There are no other cases of a Vowel+Virama combination in the
>Unicode encoding model.

Yes, there are. Khmer.

>4. Yaphalaa is not equivalent to 'Virama+Ya'

Yes, it is, as I showed yesterday.

>5. ISCII implementations encode these letters as separate characters
>corresponding to the Devanagari Candra A & E. Unicode should follow
>the example of these implementations.

No, it shouldn't. Unicode has a method for writing these sequences
already and a second method for doing so should not be introduced.
Use mapping tables to exchange ISCII and Unicode data.

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