> I wonder if there are other, better defined, cases of ligatures between > base characters and diacritics in other scripts, i.e. cases where there > is an optional alternative to base character plus diacritic which does > not look like the base character plus the diacritic.
Devangari? Syllabe + virama + ZWJ --> consonant. Note that the ZWJ is _after_ the virama.

