"Peter Constable" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: << When someone comes along and says "we need to encode Devanagari ksha" or "we need to encode ch", you, Michael Everson, will respond saying, "No, we do not need to encode those things," and you make that decision by applying some principle.>>
Since Devanagari 'ksha' (and 'jÃa') are considered to be (and treated as) separate letters in some languages written in Devanagari I should think there was a good case for encoding these as separate characters - at least before the rule that characters with decompositions can no longer be encoded came in. - Chris