At 11:26 +0100 2002-03-08, Marco Cimarosti wrote: >You are wrong, in fact, sorry. Although figure 9-3 does not show code point >values, both the glyphs and the abbreviated letter names make it clear that >the sequence is: > > U+0930 (DEVANAGARI LETTER RA) > U+094D (DEVANAGARI SIGN VIRAMA) > U+090B (DEVANAGARI LETTER VOCALIC R) > >James' idea is that the same graphemes could have been better represented >with sequence: > > U+0930 (DEVANAGARI LETTER RA) > U+0943 (DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC R) > >It is an interesting idea, because <ra> never occurs with matra <r.>, so >there is no danger of confusion. But it is probably too late for changing >it: it would break compatibility with ISCII and existing Unicode fonts.
Well, Apple's in WorldText version 1.1 I just typed both of these. The first one displayed as RA VIRAMA (visible) VOCALIC R and the second displayed as REPHA VOCALIC R. So in at least one implementation the latter is supported. -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
