Re: [indic] Re: Proposal to add four characters for Kashmiri to the BMP of the UCS

From: Andrew West (andrewcwest@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Jul 07 2008 - 04:33:02 CDT

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    2008/7/7 Andrew West <andrewcwest@gmail.com>:
    >
    >> As per Devanagari syllable rule Matra's can,t combine with vowel's,
    >
    > Is that really true? Is this stated in the Unicode Standard?

    TUS 5.0 chapter 9.1 page 299:

    <http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.0.0/ch09.pdf>

    "Vowel Letters. Vowel letters are encoded atomically in Unicode, even
    if they can be analyzed visually as consisting of multiple parts.
    Table 9-1 shows the letters that can be analyzed, the single code
    point that should be used to represent them in text, and the sequence
    of code points resulting from analysis that should not be used."

    The question is whether this is merely a description of the encoding
    practice inherited from ISCII or whether this is a rule to be applied
    to all new characters.

    But as Miichael says, this is an issue that should be decided by UTC and WG2.

    Andrew

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