Re: Malayalam Cillaksharams (was Ya-phalaa)

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At 21:14 +0000 2003-03-05, Andy White wrote:
>I am replying to this portion of the reply as I feel it is a very
>important revelation.

We weren't hiding it. This is part of the improvements to Unicode
that have been made for 4.0. One of the tasks I was given was to
improve the block descriptions of the Indic scripts if I could. Most
have been improved rather a lot considering the time constraints we
have had. In each case we endeavoured to address some of the problem
areas. We are still editing.

> > To reiterate our consistency in using this model, I will give you a
>> Malayalam example.
>>
>> NA + VIRAMA + MA --> NMA (a single conjunct)
>> NA + VIRAMA + ZWNJ + MA --> NMA (with a visible virama breve
>> above and between) NA + VIRAMA + ZWJ + MA --> NMA (with the
>> cillaks.aram virama curl)
>[...]
> > Michael Everson

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