From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Sat Apr 01 2006 - 07:55:03 CST
> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]
On Behalf
> Of Vinod Kumar
> The underlying character sequence <Nga Halant Ka MatraI> should have
the
> display with the glyph gMatraI preceding the glyph corresponding to
Nga
> only if the <Nga Halant> has generated a half form or has joined with
gKa.
> So <gMatraI gNgaHalf gKa> and <gMatraI gNgKa> are correct.
> But if the font does not have the half Nga or conjunct glyphs as is
normal,
> then the correct rendering is <gNga gHalant gMatraI gKa>.
> I am sick and tired of people glibly claiming that
> <gMatraI GNga gHalant gKa> is valid display for the character
sequence.
The reality is that some people *do* consider that a valid display for
the character sequence. I was told at one point that that was even
adopted as a recommended spelling convention by the Indian government,
but I have no confirmation for that.
Peter Constable
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