The character U+0904 (DEVANAGARI LETTER SHORT A) is not a part of ISCII 91.
Neither was it encoded in any of the earlier versions of ISCII. Hence
according to the ISCII standard this character simply cannot be formed.
Aparna A. Kulkarni
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The character U+0904 (DEVANAGARI LETTER SHORT A) is not a part of ISCII 91.
Neither was it encoded in any
Philippe Verdy va escriure:
U+0904 DEVANAGARI LETTER SHORT A is used only for the case of an
independant vowel. It can be viewed as a conjunct of the
independant vowel U+0905 DEVANAGARI LETTER A and the dependant
vowel sign U+0946 DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN SHORT E (noted for
transcribing
Ernest Cline wrote:
I've been trying to make sense of the Indian scripts, but am
having one small difficulty. I can't seem to find the ISCII 1991
equivalent for U+0904 (DEVANAGARI LETTER SHORT A).
I do not believe you'll find it there.
U+0904 had been added to Unicode for version 4.0
as other consonnant letters
/*a/, i.e. coding another isolated vowel requires coding /a/ before the vowel
sign (matra). This encodes approximately the same thing as isolated vowels,
except that the intended rendering is different.
U+0904 DEVANAGARI LETTER SHORT A is used only for the case
I've been trying to make sense of the Indian scripts, but am
having one small difficulty. I can't seem to find the ISCII 1991
equivalent for U+0904 (DEVANAGARI LETTER SHORT A).
Is this a character that is part of the set accessed by the
extended code (xF0) or was this part of the ISCII 1988
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