Brendan Murray wrote:
> "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.
> "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.
I believe that there should be a virama (halant) before, or in place of, the
ZWJ:
1) U+09A4, U+09CD (B. LETTER TA, B. VIRAMA) shows as a "half ta" only when followed by
another consonant.
2) U+09A4, U+09CD,
U+200D (B. LETTER TA, B. VIRAMA,
Z.W.J.) shows as a "half ta" even
if no consonant follows.
Form 1 is the one normally used; form 2 is a
special hack, used when the glyph
has to be shown in isolation (e.g. when
writing about the script itself).
_ Marco
