P3: Grave and acute

Last updated: August 31, 2004

The existence of the encoded characters U+0953 DEVANAGARI GRAVE ACCENT and U+0954 DEVANAGARI ACUTE ACCENT is questionable.

At this point, it is believed that the grave and acute are only used when transcribing/transliterating to latin, in which case U+0300 COMBINING GRAVE ACCENT and U+0301 COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT should be used. There is no other known use of the Devanagari characters. (however, see problem P31, Musical notations)

At the same time, TDIL proposes to encode:

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