Re: Rendering of Candrabindhu & Visarga Dual Combination in Indic Scripts

From: Vinodh Rajan (vinodh.vinodh@gmail.com)
Date: Thu May 07 2009 - 14:12:11 CDT

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    Yeah. Sanskrit 2003 font has the Repha with Vocalic R glyph for रृ

    For the other fonts, I tried forcing the display of the Repha - Vocal R
    combination with:

     <RA> + <VIRAMA> + <ZWJ> + <VOCALIC R>.

    But all devanagari fonts in my PC (Mangal, Arial Unicode MS, Sanskrit 2003,
    e-NagariOT) produce the glyph of Marathi Eyelash Ra instead of the Repha for
    the <RA> + <VIRAMA> + <ZWJ> combination.

    Isn't Marathi Eyelash Ra actually defined as <RRA> + <VIRAMA> ?

    If, <RA> + <VIRAMA> + <ZWJ> => Eyelash Ra

    How to the force the display of the Combing Repha then ? Similar to the
    combining forms of other consonants like ज्‍ , म्‍ etc ?

    On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 2:01 AM, Kess Vargavind <vargavind@gmail.com> wrote:

    > > On Tue, 5 May 2009, Doug Ewell wrote:
    > >
    > > repha above vowel letter R
    > > र्ऋ
    >
    > I would say by writing U+0930 U+0943 (रृ rr̥). Whether it is displayed
    > as “r-hook above vocalic r” or “vocalic r beneath ra” depends on font
    > though.
    >
    >
    > 

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