Script_extension Property of U+0310 Combining Candrabindu
Is there any reason why U+0310 COMBINING CANDRABINDU has scx=Inherited rather than scx=Latn? The only language I've seen the character used in is Sanskrit, and the only script I've seen it in is the Latin script. Richard.
Re: Script_extension Property of U+0310 Combining Candrabindu
The Guara Times font maps Cyrillic letters (Л,л,М,м) with chandrabindus in the P.U.A. of the font. This can be done without the P.U.A. using U+0310: Л̐,л̐,М̐,м̐ http://www.chakra.lv/blog/2016/10/19/transliterating-sanskrit-into-russian/ On 2019-04-18 7:59 PM, Richard Wordingham via Unicode wrote: Is there any reason why U+0310 COMBINING CANDRABINDU has scx=Inherited rather than scx=Latn? The only language I've seen the character used in is Sanskrit, and the only script I've seen it in is the Latin script. Richard.
Re: Script_extension Property of U+0310 Combining Candrabindu
The Wikipedia page states, U+0310 is a general-purpose combining diacritical mark. I would treat it similar like U+0308 (COMBINING DIAERESIS) or U+030C (COMBINING CARON), which are both characters with multiple names and different meanings depending on the script and the language. The main benefit of these general-purpose combining diacritical marks is, that they can be applied to many characters if needed. I don’t think, it is a good idea to remove this versatility. At least one example exists, where someone used the combining candrabindu for a constructed language as the upside-down counterpart to the combining fermata. http://randomguy32.de/conlang/000/writing/ Best regards, Marius Am Do., 18 Apr 2019 20:59:53 +0100 schrieb Richard Wordingham via Unicode : > Is there any reason why U+0310 COMBINING CANDRABINDU has scx=Inherited > rather than scx=Latn? The only language I've seen the character used > in is Sanskrit, and the only script I've seen it in is the Latin > script. > > Richard. pgp0mBzA7K7wW.pgp Description: Digitale Signatur von OpenPGP
Re: Script_extension Property of U+0310 Combining Candrabindu
On Fri, 19 Apr 2019 01:52:15 +0200 Marius Spix via Unicode wrote: > The Wikipedia page states, U+0310 is a general-purpose combining > diacritical mark. I would treat it similar like U+0308 (COMBINING > DIAERESIS) or U+030C (COMBINING CARON), which are both characters with > multiple names and different meanings depending on the script and the > language. The main benefit of these general-purpose combining > diacritical marks is, that they can be applied to many characters if > needed. I don’t think, it is a good idea to remove this versatility. That's a fair point. My problem is that someone is claiming of U+0310 that "Somewhere in the Unicode specifications is a footnote saying it is to be used with Devanagari". However, some people get rather upset with the idea of using the general combining diacritics in Indic scripts. Richard.
Latin Script Danda
Which character should one use for a danda in the Latin script? I believed normal usage is to use U+0964 DEVANAGARI DANDA, but for some reason its script extension property does not include the Latin script. Richard.
