P5: Devanagari conjuncts

Last updated: August 31, 2004

Some common Devanagari conjuncts have shapes that differ vastly from the combinations of their parts, and users do not understand how to represent text that renders with those conjuncts.

TDIL proposes to encode some of those conjuncts:

There is no evidence that those letters represent anything more than what can already be represented with sequences. The sequences for those three conjuncts are already recorded in the draft NamedCompositeEntities.txt:

along with others.

The entries in NamedCompositeEntities.txt, together with the existing text of chapter 9, are an adequate solution to the problem.

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