From: Andy White (Andy__White@btinternet.com)
Date: Mon Nov 18 2002 - 15:21:28 EST
A brief reply to Marco
Marco wrote:
> In some Indic scripts (e.g., Devanagari), left-side matras
> reorder around the whole consonant cluster; in some other
> scripts (e.g., Tamil, Malayalam), they reorder around the
> base consonant only:
>
> Devanagari: Ta Virama ZWNJ Ta MatraI -> MatraI Ta+Virama Ta
>
> Tamil: Ta Virama (ZWNJ) Ta MatraI -> Ta+Virama
> MatraI Ta
>
> (Notice that ZWNJ is redundant in Tamil, as the rendering
> would be identical without it.)
>
> My assumption is that Bengali, in this respect, behaves with
> Tamil and Malayalam.
No in general Bengali behaves like Devanagri in this respect, Only where KhandaTa is concerned is Malayalam logic true.
> ... The purpose of ZWJ and ZWNJ us one of the few things in
> Indic Unicode which is quite clear.
It is not clear.
> A sequence of consonant+Virama+ZWJ always shows a half form
> glyph (such as a the Half-Ta in Devanagari or the Khanda Ta
> in Bengali)...
>...What's wrong in saying that it is a half form [i.e. Khanda Ta]
Yes a consonant+Virama+ZWJ shows a half form but what makes you think that a half Ta should look like a KhandaTa?
Why should the Bengali script not be allowed to have a Half Ta?
In some fonts the Bengali half Ta is drawn as a smaller raised Ta whilst khandaTa is given as a separate glyph.
Remember that Khanda Ta is considered a separate character by Bengalis.
>
... ...
Andy
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