Philippe Verdy wrote: > But are these supplemental Malayalam letters borrowed from Syriac > really RTL like in the Syriac script ? I have doubts (it would > seriously impact the Malayalam script which is LTR). > > May be the letter forms are identical (or similar) but they are > changed to LTR (so the disunicification is justified if these are > really letters). > > Or these are combining diacritics (working within the Indic letter > clusters), i.e. in a "C*" general category but not in a "L*" general > category (in which case they are Bidi neutral and don't really need to > be in the RTL range).
It might help to read the proposal: http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15088-syriac-malayalam.pdf -- Doug Ewell | http://ewellic.org | Thornton, CO 🇺🇸