From: Shriramana Sharma (samjnaa@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Sep 08 2009 - 07:08:22 CDT
On 2009-Sep-08 15:52, David J. Perry wrote:
> It looks to me (please excuse my ignorance of Indic languages) as though
> 0901 is supposed to be a combining mark, not a spacing character. It is
> printed over a dotted circle in the Unicode book, which is the
> convention for combining marks. Spacing versions of a few combining
> accents are encoded separately and are, indeed, displayed without the
> dotted circle. Compare 0300 vs 0060, the combining and spacing grave
> accents respectively. You can't make a combining mark into a spacing
> character just by putting a NBSP before it. If it is defined in the
> standard as a combining character, most software will automatically put
> in the dotted circle.
My point was that some software does not use a dotted circle for all
combining marks. I never said I wanted to "convert" (non-spacing)
combining marks into spacing characters. I only said that I wanted to
display combining marks in isolation and the method that the Unicode
standard prescribes for this, viz applying them to NBSP as a base
character, does not work on all software.
-- Shriramana Sharma
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