On 2020-01-01 11:17 AM, Richard Wordingham via Unicode wrote:
> That's exactly the sort of mess that jack-booted renderers are trying
> to minimise. Their principle is that there should be only one encoding
> per shape, though to be fair:
>
> 1) some renderers accept canonical equivalents.
> 2) tolerance may be allowed for ligating (ZWJ, ZWNJ, CGJ), collating
> (CGJ, SHY) and line-breaking controls (SHY, ZWSP, WJ).
> 3) Superseded chillu encodings are still supported.
There was never any need for atomic chillu form characters. The
principle of only one encoding per shape is best achieved when every
shape gets an atomic encoding. Glyph-based encoding is incompatible
with Unicode character encoding principles.
It’s too bad that ISCII didn’t accomodate the needs of Vedic Sanskrit,
but here we are.
