The biggest issue for indic is where the (n)j occurs before a halant.
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Mark <https://plus.google.com/114199149796022210033>
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On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 13:17, Eric Mader <emader_at_icu-project.org> wrote:
> Thanks. The actual case I found is Devanagari: SA + ZWNJ + ANUSVARA. Does
> this have some special meaning, or is it the same as the A-ACUTE case?
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> Regards,
> Eric
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> On 2/27/12 9:23 AM, Mark Davis ☕ wrote:
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> In TUS, in http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.1.0/ch03.pdf
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> D56 Combining character sequence: A maximal character sequence
> consisting of either a
> base character followed by a sequence of one or more characters where each
> is a
> combining character, zero width joiner, or zero width non-joiner; or a
> sequence of one or more characters where each is a combining character,
> zero
> width joiner, or zero width non-joiner.
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> ...
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> So 'a' is the base character for the acute. The clauses with zwj/nj are
> really designed for Indic and similar scripts. The rendering isn't
> specified for other cases, but where the zwj/nj are not defined to have an
> effect, they should* be ignored for normal rendering. That being said, this
> is such an edge case that I don't think the 'should' is enough to jump
> through hoops for.
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> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 09:37, Eric Mader <emader_at_icu-project.org> wrote:
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>> Hello,
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>> I searched the list archives and didn't find anything that addressed this
>> exact issue. If I see a sequence like a + ZWNJ + ACUTE, should it be
>> rendered as a followed by an acute accent over a dotted circle, or should
>> it be rendered as A-ACUTE?
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>> (The actual case I hit was in Devanagari, but it seems to me that the
>> question applies to all scripts with non-spacing marks)
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>> Regards,
>> Eric Mader
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