RE: Indic Vowel/Consonant combinations

From: Andy White (Andy__White@btinternet.com)
Date: Wed Feb 12 2003 - 02:57:17 EST

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    Jameskass wrote:
    > Andy White wrote,
    >
    > > The ORIYA LETTER WA (A.K.A. ORIYA VOWEL O WITH SUBSCRIPT
    > CONSONANT VA)
    >
    > It looks like a squashed U+0B13 atop the base of U+0B2A and
    > doesn't seem to resemble U+0B35.

    Ah, but 0B35 didn't used to look the way it does in the charts today. It
    used to look the same as 0B2C.
    (Which I think that you probably already know)
     
    > > An example is the Devanagri Letter Vocalic R with
    > Superscript Letter
    > > Ra (aka
    > > Vowel Ru with Reph). Despite many discussions, no one has
    > been able to come
    > to
    > > any agreement as to how to encode it. Is this a candidate?
    > If not; how
    > > to
    > encode
    > > it?
    >
    > U+0930, U+094D, U+090B ?

    How then would you encode a visual U+0930, U+094D, U+090B (which may be
    needed when a glottal stop is intended between the 'ra' and 'ri')?

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