From: N. Ganesan (naa.ganesan@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Aug 03 2007 - 13:29:43 CDT
On 8/3/07, Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com> wrote:
> Are you suggesting that ZWJ and ZWNJ are not deprecated in IDN?
> --
> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
>
I definitely suggest/request that use of ZWJ in Malayalam IDN *not* be
deprecated
per PRI-96. When major developers, papers, and publishers will
continue and plan
to use Malayalam unicode with zwj sequences in text, why block zwj in
IDN only for Malayalam? Doesn't zwj not work in IDN for Devanagari
script?
Just like other India's scripts, Malayalam should be given the
capacity to use both zwj and zwnj in IDN.
As we discussed here, Malayalam is not comparable to any South East Asian
script. Its political, cultural and linguistic affliations are within
India. Once Antoine
Leca said the grid of ISCII is not "innocent", any letter is linked in
parallel code
spots, so also they've designed 'soft' halanta. As Devanagari, we can
use chillus
with zwj's to differentiate in meanings for Malayalam too.
N. Ganesan
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