At 11:26 +0100 2002-03-08, Marco Cimarosti wrote:
>You are wrong, in fact, sorry. Although figure 9-3 does not show code point
>values, both the glyphs and the abbreviated letter names make it clear that
>the sequence is:
>
> U+0930 (DEVANAGARI LETTER RA)
> U+094D (DEVANAGARI SIGN VIRAMA)
> U+090B (DEVANAGARI LETTER VOCALIC R)
>
>James' idea is that the same graphemes could have been better represented
>with sequence:
>
> U+0930 (DEVANAGARI LETTER RA)
> U+0943 (DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC R)
>
>It is an interesting idea, because <ra> never occurs with matra <r.>, so
>there is no danger of confusion. But it is probably too late for changing
>it: it would break compatibility with ISCII and existing Unicode fonts.
Well, Apple's in WorldText version 1.1 I just typed both of these.
The first one displayed as RA VIRAMA (visible) VOCALIC R and the
second displayed as REPHA VOCALIC R. So in at least one
implementation the latter is supported.
-- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
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