The officers of the Unicode Consortium have posted a new issue for public
review and comment. Details are on the following web page:
http://www.unicode.org/review/
Review period for the new item closes on August 3, 2004.
Please see the page for links to discussion and relevant documents.
Briefly, the new issue is:
37 Clarification of the Use of Zero Width Joiner in Indic Scripts
There are some inconsistencies in the use of ZERO WIDTH JOINER (ZWJ)
in a number of Indic scripts which are outlined in the accompanying review
document. This proposal intends to rectify these problems, clarifying
how the ZERO WIDTH JOINER is to be applied in scripts, and consolidating
common mechanisms for equivalent problems that exist in several scripts.
The scope for what is proposed covers Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi,
Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam.
The question for reviewers is: Should the UTC adopt a model in which
ZWJ precedes Virama, as proposed in section 7 of the review document?
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Regards,
Rick McGowan
Unicode, Inc.
