From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Sun Apr 03 2005 - 22:41:41 CST
> From: unicore-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicore-bounce@unicode.org]
On
> Behalf Of Patrick Andries
> > If the mark of implosivity were encoded as separate, then yes, you'd
> > have to have to do extra work to get the fused forms.
>
> [PA] Given what the Devanagari rendering engines already do
(conjuncts,
> virama, handling of ra), this may not be such a problem if they were
> benefits to encoding a productive separate combining mark.
There are no real benefits from encoding a separate combining mark, and
I can assure you that the cost to implementations in dealing with the
issues a combining mark would raise would not be trivial.
Please, just encode four new characters. We are not desperate for
codepoints.
Peter Constable
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