Keyur Shroff wrote: > But sometimes a user may want visual representation of these > symbols in two different ways: with dotted circle and > without dotted circle.
Why not using a dotted circle character explicity, when you want to see one? > Example of > this could be RAsup on top of dotted circle and RAsup on top of space > character. Current use of space character to eliminate dotted > circle is really painful and may create problems in determining > language and syllable boundaries. Languages or syllable boundaries have nothing to do with this. These special sequences should *never* be part of any syllabe or word in any language: they are just a way of showing the shape of a glyph, to be used when, e.g., talking about typography or spelling. > The main problem with space character is that unlike > ZWJ/ZWNJ/Dotted Circle, it falls within the range of other > important script "Latin". Plain wrong! White-space characters and punctuation do not belong to any script: character such as " ", "!" and "?" are used for many scripts and languages. Even the "danda" punctuation, which is in the Devanagari range, does not belong to Devanagari: it is also used for other Indic scripts. > Use of INV character in one shot can solve all these > problems. We can put it in "consonant" class which > can help text processing applications. [...] How can calling a "consonant" something which has nothing to do with consonants help anybody doing anything? _ Marco
