On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Michael Everson wrote: > 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 > > Friday, March 8, 2002 Michael, Yes. [Call lme Jim] Regards, Jim Agenbroad ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) "It is not true that people stop pursuing their dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing their dreams." Adapted from a letter by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The above are purely personal opinions, not necessarily the official views of any government or any agency of any. Addresses: Office: Phone: 202 707-9612; Fax: 202 707-0955; US mail: I.T.S. Sys.Dev.Gp.4, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave. SE, Washington, D.C. 20540-9334 U.S.A. Home: Phone: 301 946-7326; US mail: Box 291, Garrett Park, MD 20896.
