Re: Bangla(Bengali) letter Missing

[brendan_murray]

"Md Ziaur Rahman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ... found that a letter that is frequently used in Bangla is absent from the standard. It is Bangla letter Khondo-ta

I believe that this character is a composition of  TA (U+09A4) and the ZERO-WIDTH JOINER, the so-called "half-consonant", as opposed to being a separate character.

> ...  Bangla should be used in the unicode standard instead of Bengali

It probably should. However, historically the script has been called Bengali in English, and this is how the name was assigned. I can't remember the policies about script naming, but I believe this is not as inflexible as other aspects of the standard.

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