Dear Kenneth I stand corrected, apologies
Mike > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kenneth Whistler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 05 August 2003 21:15 > To: Mike Meir > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > One small correction to what Mike Meir stated: > > > The Unicode position that nukta modifies the sound is therefore a > > simplification. But in any event, the nukta, however it is > > represented, indicates a distinction, usually a change of > sound, not > > what that distinction might be. > > It is not the "Unicode position" that a nukta "modifies the sound". > This is neither a requirement of the Unicode Standard nor > something that the UTC has stated. > > A combining nukta, as for any combining mark in the standard, > is a character which graphically modifies a base *character*. > What the nature of that modification *signifies* is entirely > a matter for the users of the relevant orthography to determine. > > Indeed, the standard mantra that the editors put in the names > list for Indic nuktas is simply: > > "for extending the alphabet to new letters" > > What those new letters are used for -- whether they signify > modified sounds and whether such modification is uniformly > applied when such letters are used for different languages -- > is up to the users of those letters. > > --Ken > > >
