Re: [indic] Re: Unicode Processing Requirements for the Tamil Script

From: N. Ganesan (naa.ganesan@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Sep 06 2005 - 10:57:58 CDT

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    >Nagara - subscript, after ligature - note occurrences of bhu. No examples
    >of -i + number.

    Some -i examples (eg.):
    http://www.prapatti.com/slokas/tam2/hayagriivaashtottarashatanaamaavali.pdf

    >Of course, the problem only arises when the superscript/subscript
    >comes before vowel sign AA or AU length mark, including the cases
    >where these are parts of compound vowels. I think a quick fix would
    >be to allow them to be independent of an akshara, as though they were
    >letters (category Lo) like Thai sara AA rather than marks (category Mc).
    >I suppose this would weaken error checking by the renderer.

    Instead of changing the property of (only) AA or AU mark,
    it will be much better that the rendering engine is changed.

    N. Ganesan



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