[Smc-discuss] Re: Chillaksharams-Malayalam Unicode standard

[Mahesh T. Pai]

Vinod said on Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 12:33:13PM -0700,:

 > What I meant was, in a document conforming to the Unicode standard, a
 > chillu_forming_consonant+virama should never occur unless followed by
 > another consonant, a ZWJ, or a ZWNJ. i.e.,
 > chillu_forming_consonant+virama shouldn't end a word. Perhaps I'm wrong
 > about this and this should indeed be rendered as the consonant followed
 > by virama

IMHO,  you are  wrong.  Or, mMay  be, it  might  even be  that we  are
speaking the  same thing using different terminology.  Anyway, look at
the attached png for chillu-forming  consonants ending a word. I can't
get non  `nu' characters  in stallmanu to  render reasonably  here; so
look at the last two glyphs in `manushyanu'. 

 >  [which  is  the most  natural  thing  to  do consistent  with  the
 > treatment of non-chillu-forming consonants].

Yes. 
 
 >  If that is the case, a  clarification in the Unicode book might be
 > helpful. Lack of this seems to be the root of all the confusion.

While agreeing that a change in the unicode book will be a good thing,
so far,  nobody ever understood  things any differently from  what you
(Vinod)  has been saying.   Even the  earlier articulations  in public
lists   have    been   in   favour   of    different   rendering   for
cons+chandrakkala+zwj and conz+chandrakkala.

BTW, my teacher in school used to  say that in usage, you should add a
`ukaram' when cons+chandrakkala ends a word.

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         Mahesh T. Pai    <<>>   http://paivakil.port5.com
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