RE: Never say never

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At 23:53 +0000 2003-02-11, Andy White wrote:

>And I today see that the precomposed character '0B71 ORIYA LETTER WA'
>has been added to the UCS4.0 charts
>http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U40-0B00.pdf
>This is clearly a composition of ORIYA LETTER O and ORIYA LETTER LETTER
>VA (BA).

That's its origin, yes. But because it is not normal in Oriya to
subjoin letters to independent vowels, we have thought it best to
consider this to be a new consonant letter (a different thing from
KSSA ligatures, for example). See
http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2525.pdf

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