From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Fri Mar 19 2004 - 00:53:37 EST
> From: Ernest Cline [mailto:ernestcline@mindspring.com]
> Based on http://www.tdil.mit.gov.in/OriyaScriptDetailsApr02.pdf
> I think that only YYA can be used to generate the Oriya ya-phalaa.
That doc tells me they expect < ..., virama, YYA > to display as
ya-phalaa, but it says nothing about how < ..., virama, YA > should be
displayed.
I also don't draw conclusions from that document alone because there are
some other details it fails to discuss (e.g. a below-mark form of the
i-kaar used on certain consonants), some other details on which it
differs from what is in Unicode 4.0 (e.g. wa-phalaa), and some details
that are AFAICT completely bizarre (e.g. saying that the m-pa ligature
and conjuncts with subjoined pa are encoded as < C, virama, ga, virama,
dha >).
I also have to consider that several books in English or Oriya that
describe the script describe ya-phalaa as a conjoined form of ya, not
yya.
So, at the end of the day, I know that YYA can generate ya-phalaa, but I
still need to know how to render sequences with < ..., virama, YA >.
Peter Constable
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