Re: Tamil-Latin proposal

From: Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham_at_ntlworld.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 21:18:30 +0100

I did wonder if part of the idea was to get consonant + pulli accepted
as basic.

On Thu, 9 Jul 2015 21:08:09 +0200
Philippe Verdy <verdy_p_at_wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> Also it's cleanrly not needed to duplicate Latin letters (or Cyrillic
> tool) to borrow them in them Tamil script, just in order to add Tamil
> vowel diacritics on top of them.

Actually, this touches on a very real issue. U+0BC0 TAMIL VOWEL SIGN
II has a script property of Tamil, and there is a very strong tendency
for <U+006D LATIN SMALL LETTER M, U+0BC0> to be split between two script
runs and consequently to be rendered as containing a defective sequence
- the cursed dotted circle of the literal grammar police appears. I
confirmed this in LibreOffice using the Code2000 font, which I know
supports Tamil.

Richard.
Received on Thu Jul 09 2015 - 15:19:50 CDT

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