From: Shriramana Sharma (samjnaa@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Sep 03 2009 - 04:13:36 CDT
The Unicode Standard repeats in every Indic script in chapter 9 that
vowels are encoded atomically. Yet "compatibility decompositions" are
provided for all the two-part Indic vowels. Why is the decomposition
used at all? If you are encoding atomically, then it means the vowels
are mutually exclusive, and it actually doesn't make any sense to compose:
TAMIL LETTER KA + TAMIL VOWEL SIGN E + TAMIL VOWEL SIGN AA
instead of just:
TAMIL LETTER KA + TAMIL VOWEL SIGN O
Perhaps it is said that this decomposition exists for backward
compatibility. Then if I am encoding a new Indic script, then I don't
need to provide these decompositions, right?
-- Shriramana Sharma
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