At 17:37 +0200 2000.08.24, James E. Agenbroad wrote: > Yes indeed. Mr. Leca points out that ISCII uses two halants to >mean an 'explicit halant'--one not to be replaced by a more complicated >conjunct. I guess I prefer the Unicode ZWJ. (You meant ZWNJ) I still don't know which ISCII application Mr. Antoine was using, but on the Mac the typing of two halants in order to get a context-sensitive rendering of one explicit halant, must be very similar in that the 'inner storage' (8-bit) codes of ka-virama-virama-ka are B3-E8-E8-B3. Typing: ka_halant_halant_ka Rendering: ka_explicit halant_ka Local code: B3-E8-E8-B3 But....... TEC translates this as: UTF-8: <E0-A4-95><E0-A5-8D><E2-80-8C><E0-A4-95> <E0-A4-95> = U+0915 = ka <E0-A5-8D> = U+094D = halant <E2-80-8C> = U+200C = ZWNJ So here is the prefered ZWNJ. Actually, in ISCII there cannot be a ZWNJ because ISCII is a 7-bit standard. (According to John Smith: "ACII is the name used for the full 8-bit character set comprising 7-bit ASCII in the lower half and 7-bit ISCII in the upper half.") Jaap --
