At 15:16 -0500 07/03/2002, James E. Agenbroad wrote:
>On Wed, 6 Mar 2002 Peter_Constable@sil.org wrote:
>
>> On 03/06/2002 08:25:18 AM Michael Everson wrote:
> [snip]
>>
>> >In
>> >Cham, independent vowels can take dependent vowel signs. In
>> >Devanagari, I guess that doesn't occur, but the Brahmic model
>> >shouldn't be understood to preclude this behaviour.
>> [snip]
>> - Peter
>
>A similar but not the same situation is found in the fourth example in
>figure 9-3 of Unicode 3.0 (page 214) where an intedpendent vowel has the
>"reph" (an abridged form of a the consonant 'ra') above it. Unicode wants
>this encoded as consonant + halant + independent vowel. I believe it is
>better considered as a consonant + vowel sign combination which happens to
>have an odd display and at least one Sanskrit textbook agrees.
Is that the sample you showed me when I was a-photocopying at the
Library of Congress in August, James? You're saying that RA + virama
+ INDEPENDENT VOCALIC R and RA + VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC R should both
produce the same glyph?
-- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
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