Philippe Verdy va escriure: > > U+0904 DEVANAGARI LETTER SHORT A is used only for the case of an > independant vowel. It can be "viewed" as a conjunct of the > independant vowel U+0905 DEVANAGARI LETTER A and the dependant > vowel sign U+0946 DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN SHORT E (noted "for > transcribing Dravidian vowels" in the Unicode charts).
You may regard it this way, but that is not so. U+0905 followed by U+0946 is really U+090E. Compare with the other scripts to understand why. > I don't know why this is not documented, because I can find various > sources that use <U+0904> or <U+0905,U+0946> which have exactly the > same rendering and probably the same meaning and usage. Whow! You have various sources that use a character added to Unicode about 2 years and half ago! Impressionnant! About the rendering of <U+0905,U+0946>, since it violates the usual rules, it is up to your system. Mine does not render it properly, though (unless I cheat). > I think that U+0946 was added in ISCII 1991 but was absent from ISCII > 1988 No. It was there even in ISCII 83. > (I think it's too late to define it: ISCII 1988 has been used > consistently before, Hmmmm... I have really no evidence that ISCII 1988 was used at all... Would be happy to find one, though... Antoine
