On Mon, 28 May 2018 16:13:43 -0600 Doug Ewell via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote:
> Richard Wordingham wrote: > > > The effects of virama that spring to mind are: > > > > (a) Causing one or both letters on either side to change or combine > > to indicate combination; > > > > (b) Appearing as a mark only if it does not affect one of the > > letters on either side; > > > > (c) Causing a left matra to appear on the left of the sequence of > > consonants joined by a sequence of non-visible viramas. > > Most of these don't apply to Tamil, of course. They all apply to க்ஷே <U+0B95, U+0BCD, U+0BB7, U+0BC7> TAMIL SYLLABLE KSSEE. There are four other named syllables where they all apply. Richard
