...I thought this had been made clear. This is not a matter for Unicode as Unicode does not define character styles. It is not a matter for legacy encodings either unless they define character styles. It is a matter for higher level protocols. You need to address your comments to those who define them.
So, to promote Unicode usage, in a community, which partly sees
ISCII unification as a conspiracy against the Dravidian languages,
it would be very helpful to demonstrate, that everything that can
be done with the legacy encodings, can also be done using Unicode.
Unicode in fact makes deliberate provision for inserting markup within combining character sequences by not forbidding defective combining sequences. If particular markup protocols refuse to use this provision, that is their problem.
The most useful answers so far, were the assertions by Jungshik, BrunoThese may be useful to you but anything about markup is irrelevant to Unicode.
and others, that the markup in http://www.jodelpeter.de/i18n/tamil/markup-uc.htm
should be considered correct and, in an ideal user agent,
render like the the TSCII encoded
http://www.jodelpeter.de/i18n/tamil/markup-tscii.htm
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