Re: Long standing problem with Vedic tone markers and post-base visarga/anusvara

From: Richard Wordingham via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org>
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2020 03:28:04 +0000

On Sat, 4 Jan 2020 22:15:59 +0000
James Kass via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org> wrote:

> For the Grantha examples above, Grantha (1) displays much better
> here. It seems daft to put a spacing character between a base
> character and any mark which is supposed to combine with the base
> character.

Although it's not related to this issue, that happens in the USE scheme.
It puts vowels before vowel modifiers, which has this problem if any of
the vowel modifiers precede a vowel in visual order, as happens in Thai
and closely related writing systems.

Richard.
Received on Sat Jan 04 2020 - 21:28:38 CST

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