Avarangal <avarangal@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I need to allocate a U+codepoint for inherent "a", to be used for
> Tamil research. Can anyone suggest a temporary location or is it
> possible to find such code point within the existing code point
> for Tamil.
While we're waiting for someone with better knowledge of Indic scripts
to reply...
1. An *inherent* A wouldn't have its own code point, would it? I don't
think of it as having an existence outside of the consonant it goes
with. Tamil KA is U+0B95, which represents K plus the inherent A. If
you wanted to represent only the K, you would use U+0B95 plus the Tamil
virama, U+0BCD, to kill the A. But how could you represent an inherent
vowel by itself?
2. Assuming you have an answer to #1 above, the only way "you" could
allocate a Unicode code point for this character would be to use the
Private Use Area. You could choose any code point from U+E000 to U+F8FF
for this purpose. (There are unofficial assignments for some of these,
but you are perfectly free to ignore them.) Do *not* assign a code
point in the Tamil block, or anywhere else except the Private Use Area,
even if it's only for temporary and internal use. To do so would be
very non-conformant.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
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