yaphalaa=(?)virama+ya

From: Anirban Mitra (mitra_anirban@yahoo.co.in)
Date: Sat Mar 08 2003 - 01:23:41 EST

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    Mijan scripsit:
    >
    >> Let's consider the ra+virama+ya case. In the mostpart the
    ra+virama+ya is
    >> displayed as ya+reph. This obviously seems to be an
    >> instance of ambiguous interpretation because ra+virama+ya could
    >>also represents
    >> ra+ja-phalaa. ya+reph and ra+ja-phalaa are used in different
    words and have
    >> different meaning.
    >
    >I'm responding to this message in order to isolate this point. If
    >correct, then
    >the current model of YA PHALAA is inadequate.

    >ZWJ can be used to produce the required differentiation. 

    -- 
>Michael Everson
If exeption can be done for ra why not vowels? why to use virama to
function as zwj when we could have used zwj itself? i.e. virama+ya
to be encoded as yaphala. After vowels however  zwj+ya is best to
be encoded as yaphalaa after vowels.(in fact microsoft's unicode
processor uniscribe does exactly that). But unicode people's
stubborness to use virama as a joining mark, no matter it follows
vowel or consonant, is inexplainable. aa-virama-ya forming
ba-yaphalaa is quiet understandable and intuitive to me, but
a-virama-ya is not. 
Another ISCII considers Devanagari YA to be equivalent to Bengali
YYA, so tranferring a old bengali iscii to unicode faces a serious
problem whether to convert yya-viramaa to yaphalaa also. 
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