ZWNJ And Non-spacing Marks

2012-02-27 Thread Eric Mader
Hello, I searched the list archives and didn't find anything that addressed this exact issue. If I see a sequence like a + ZWNJ + ACUTE, should it be rendered as a followed by an acute accent over a dotted circle, or should it be rendered as A-ACUTE? (The actual case I hit was in Devanagari,

Re: ZWNJ And Non-spacing Marks

2012-02-27 Thread Mark Davis ☕
In TUS, in http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.1.0/ch03.pdf D56 Combining character sequence: A maximal character sequence consisting of either a base character followed by a sequence of one or more characters where each is a combining character, zero width joiner, or zero width non-jo

Re: ZWNJ And Non-spacing Marks

2012-02-27 Thread Eric Mader
Thanks. The actual case I found is Devanagari: SA + ZWNJ + ANUSVARA. Does this have some special meaning, or is it the same as the A-ACUTE case? Regards, Eric On 2/27/12 9:23 AM, Mark Davis ? wrote: In TUS, in http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.1.0/ch03.pdf D56 Combining character seque

Re: ZWNJ And Non-spacing Marks

2012-02-27 Thread Mark Davis ☕
The biggest issue for indic is where the (n)j occurs before a halant. -- Mark * * *— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —* ** On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 13:17, Eric Mader wrote: > Thanks. The actual case I found is Devanaga

Re: ZWNJ And Non-spacing Marks

2012-02-27 Thread Shriramana Sharma
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 2:47 AM, Eric Mader wrote: > Thanks. The actual case I found is Devanagari: SA + ZWNJ + ANUSVARA. > Does this have some special meaning, or is it the same as the A-ACUTE case? > I am a native user of Devanagari (for Sanskrit) and fail to understand what people can be try

Re: ZWNJ And Non-spacing Marks

2012-02-27 Thread Mark Davis ☕
Eric was asking a different question. I don't know about the SA case, but there is a general pattern of use of ZWJ before VIRAMA, as in Figure 9-6 in http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.0.0/ch09.pdf -- Mark * * *— Il

Re: ZWNJ And Non-spacing Marks

2012-02-27 Thread Eric Mader
This particular combination comes from http://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/?. Not being a native reader, I have no idea what the intent is... Regards, Eric Mader On 2/27/12 2:55 PM, Shriramana Sharma wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 2:47 AM, Eric Mader > wrote: