RE: Never say never

[Michael Everson]

At 23:53 +0000 2003-02-11, Andy White wrote:

And I today see that the precomposed character '0B71 ORIYA LETTER WA'
has been added to the UCS4.0 charts
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U40-0B00.pdf
This is clearly a composition of ORIYA LETTER O and ORIYA LETTER LETTER
VA (BA).

That's its origin, yes. But because it is not normal in Oriya to subjoin letters to independent vowels, we have thought it best to consider this to be a new consonant letter (a different thing from KSSA ligatures, for example). See http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2525.pdf
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