On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Michael Everson wrote:
> 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
>
>
Friday, March 8, 2002
Michael,
Yes.
[Call lme Jim]
Regards,
Jim Agenbroad ( jage@LOC.gov )
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