At 15:16 -0500 07/03/2002, James E. Agenbroad wrote: >On Wed, 6 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> On 03/06/2002 08:25:18 AM Michael Everson wrote: > [snip] >> >> >In >> >Cham, independent vowels can take dependent vowel signs. In >> >Devanagari, I guess that doesn't occur, but the Brahmic model >> >shouldn't be understood to preclude this behaviour. >> [snip] >> - Peter > >A similar but not the same situation is found in the fourth example in >figure 9-3 of Unicode 3.0 (page 214) where an intedpendent vowel has the >"reph" (an abridged form of a the consonant 'ra') above it. Unicode wants >this encoded as consonant + halant + independent vowel. I believe it is >better considered as a consonant + vowel sign combination which happens to >have an odd display and at least one Sanskrit textbook agrees.
Is that the sample you showed me when I was a-photocopying at the Library of Congress in August, James? You're saying that RA + virama + INDEPENDENT VOCALIC R and RA + VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC R should both produce the same glyph? -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
