Avarangal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to allocate a U+codepoint for inherent "a", to be used for > Tamil research. Can anyone suggest a temporary location or is it > possible to find such code point within the existing code point > for Tamil.
While we're waiting for someone with better knowledge of Indic scripts to reply... 1. An *inherent* A wouldn't have its own code point, would it? I don't think of it as having an existence outside of the consonant it goes with. Tamil KA is U+0B95, which represents K plus the inherent A. If you wanted to represent only the K, you would use U+0B95 plus the Tamil virama, U+0BCD, to kill the A. But how could you represent an inherent vowel by itself? 2. Assuming you have an answer to #1 above, the only way "you" could allocate a Unicode code point for this character would be to use the Private Use Area. You could choose any code point from U+E000 to U+F8FF for this purpose. (There are unofficial assignments for some of these, but you are perfectly free to ignore them.) Do *not* assign a code point in the Tamil block, or anywhere else except the Private Use Area, even if it's only for temporary and internal use. To do so would be very non-conformant. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California
