From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Fri Oct 24 2003 - 14:51:35 CST
At 20:41 +0200 2003-10-24, Peter Jacobi wrote:
>This makes also a lot of sense for non-speakers of Tamil, because it
>correctly correlates the number of 'N's to the number of loops in
>the glyph.
The transliteration in the naming convention is unrelated to this. In
any case names cannot be changed.
>Is it just because -for stability- character names are not allowed
>to change even if incorrect? Or is it an oversight?
It isn't incorrect. It doesn't conform to your analysis.
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