I have no knowledge of the Tamil language and I am neither a member of the
Unicode Consortium nor a representative of the Unicode Consortium.
However, as a specific suggestion is sought for a temporary code point to
use for "inherent a", then as an individual end user of the Unicode system,
I suggest the following code point within the Private Use Area.
U+E7C0
This will not provide any exclusivity of definition for this code point,
however, it is in the lower part of the Private Use Area and is therefore
less likely to clash with code points in the Private Use Area used
internally within commercially available software, which uses tend to be in
the upper part of the Private Use Area in accordance with guidance notes in
the Unicode specification. The fact that a specific code point is being
suggested within this forum may possibly also mean that various people will
make a note of its use in their own lists of characters, so that, although
its use will not be an official Unicode Consortium allocation, people
interested in the use of the Private Use Area may well make a note of the
usage.
My reasons for suggesting this particular code point is that I am producing
some code points for research, and hopefully application, and have a block
of special characters from U+E700 through to U+E7FF, including U+E707 for a
ct ligature. I am looking at including a set of long s ligatures such as
LONG S B and LONG S L and so on. I have not yet finalized the codes, yet
they will be above U+E707 as I am not using U+E700 through to U+E706 at all,
so that this section of ct and long s characters dovetails with the
Alphabetic Presentation Forms, U+FB00 through to U+FB06, in the hope that
the ct and long s characters that I suggest might one day be promoted to the
Alphabetic Presentation Forms section.
The upper part of the 256 code point block from U+E700 through to U+E7FF is
presently unused in my use of the Private Use Area and so a section from
U+E7C0 through to U+E7FF would seem a good place to have a section for
various code points used for research.
I too am interested in how the inherent "a" character would be used. Does
it have its own glyph or is it a code that modifies something else, or what?
William Overington
1 April 2002
www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo
-----Original Message-----
From: Avarangal <avarangal@hotmail.com>
To: unicode@unicode.org <unicode@unicode.org>
Date: Friday, March 29, 2002 9:33 PM
Subject: Inherant "a"
>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.
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