Hello, There are few discrepancies in Indic FAQ. Though it was reported earlier by Andy White, I see they still have place there in the FAQ. I also clarified it but by mistake I sent the mail to Yahoo groups where this mailing list is archived and hence my mail never reached to this mailing list. You can refer to the link http://groups.yahoo.com/group/unicode/message/16352
The following are the suggestions. SUGGESTION-1: In the FAQ http://www.unicode.org/faq/indic.html#2 it is mentioned that ISCII: Unicode: Halant + Halant Halant + ZWJ produce similar result. This is wrong. In ISCII, Halant+Halant is known as explicit halant and its Unicode equivalent sequence is Halant+ZWNJ. So ZWJ should be replaced by ZWNJ. SUGGESTION-2: In the FAQ http://www.unicode.org/faq/indic.html#16 It is mentioned that following are equivalent ISCII Unicode KA halant INV KA virama ZWJ RA halant INV RAsup (i.e., repha) In fact there is no way in Unicode to produce RAsup directly, i.e., without using base consonant. The sequence "RA virama ZWJ" will actually produce half-RA (or eyelash-RA) which is used commonly in Marathi. eyelash-RA can also be produced with the sequence "RA Halant Nukta" sequence both in ISCII (known as soft halant) and Unicode (just for conformance with ISCII). Also, in the same answer the following sequence is recommended. ISCII Unicode INV halant RA SPACE virama RA (RAsub) SUGGESTION-3: Use of SPACE character as consonant may create problem for state machine which finds language/syllable boundary. In fact we need a codepoint for one invisible consonant (similar to INV in ISCII) in Unicode which can solve this problem with Unicode. After inclusion of INV character the following can be recommended. ISCII Unicode KA halant INV KA virama INV RA halant INV RA virama INV (i.e., repha) INV halant RA INV virama RA (RAsub) The INV character in Unicode can also be used for displaying dependent vowel matras without dotted circle. Unicode INV Vowel sign O INV Vowel sign AI etc. This can replace existing definition of "SPACE" as invisible consonant depending on the context. Any other pointers!!? - Keyur __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
