A brief reply to Marco Marco wrote: > In some Indic scripts (e.g., Devanagari), left-side matras > reorder around the whole consonant cluster; in some other > scripts (e.g., Tamil, Malayalam), they reorder around the > base consonant only: > > Devanagari: Ta Virama ZWNJ Ta MatraI -> MatraI Ta+Virama Ta > > Tamil: Ta Virama (ZWNJ) Ta MatraI -> Ta+Virama > MatraI Ta > > (Notice that ZWNJ is redundant in Tamil, as the rendering > would be identical without it.) > > My assumption is that Bengali, in this respect, behaves with > Tamil and Malayalam.
No in general Bengali behaves like Devanagri in this respect, Only where KhandaTa is concerned is Malayalam logic true. > ... The purpose of ZWJ and ZWNJ us one of the few things in > Indic Unicode which is quite clear. It is not clear. > A sequence of consonant+Virama+ZWJ always shows a half form > glyph (such as a the Half-Ta in Devanagari or the Khanda Ta > in Bengali)... >...What's wrong in saying that it is a half form [i.e. Khanda Ta] Yes a consonant+Virama+ZWJ shows a half form but what makes you think that a half Ta should look like a KhandaTa? Why should the Bengali script not be allowed to have a Half Ta? In some fonts the Bengali half Ta is drawn as a smaller raised Ta whilst khandaTa is given as a separate glyph. Remember that Khanda Ta is considered a separate character by Bengalis. > ... ... Andy
