Re: Rendering of Candrabindhu & Visarga Dual Combination in Indic Scripts

From: Vinodh Rajan (vinodh.vinodh@gmail.com)
Date: Fri May 08 2009 - 11:33:53 CDT

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    Dhanyavādāḥ !!! :)

    On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Peter Constable <petercon@microsoft.com>wrote:

    > From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On
    > Behalf Of Andreas Prilop
    > Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 8:16 AM
    >
    > >> How to correctly render the Visarga & Anusvara Dual Combinations
    >
    > > I would like to add the question:
    > >
    > > How to write the combination candrabindu U+0901 and virama U+094D
    > > after letter La U+0932 ?
    >
    > On Windows Vista and in Office 2007, the sequence <0932, 094d, 0901>
    > displays as I think you desire. Uniscribe's Indic engine has all along
    > assumed a sequence order that places vowel components or virama before
    > syllable-modifier components, and in this case that translates into virama
    > before candrabindu.
    >
    > As for combinations of candrabindu and visarga, unfortunately there were
    > some early decisions in Uniscribe to impose certain restrictions on Indic
    > sequences, and while I've worked at getting those relaxed in sensible ways
    > this is one restriction that is still there -- a known issue that I plan to
    > have eliminated in a future version.
    >
    >
    >
    > Peter
    >
    >
    > 

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