On 03/07/2002 02:16:10 PM "James E. Agenbroad" wrote: >A similar but not the same situation is found in the fourth example in >figure 9-3 of Unicode 3.0 (page 214) where an intedpendent vowel has the >"reph" (an abridged form of a the consonant 'ra') above it. Unicode wants >this encoded as consonant + halant + independent vowel. I believe it is >better considered as a consonant + vowel sign combination which happens to >have an odd display and at least one Sanskrit textbook agrees.
I may be wrong, but I believe that example has < ra, halant, ra, independent i >. The first ra is the one that transforms into the reph. - Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Constable Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA Tel: +1 972 708 7485 E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
