RE: Never say never

[Michael Everson]

At 02:05 +0000 2003-02-12, Andy White wrote:

Thank you for the reply.

Given this information, I wonder if anyone can tell me why the 'Bengali
letter AE' and 'Bengali Letter EA' were never included in the UCS?
(I am talking about the letters mentioned in the Unicode Indic FAQ,
http://www.unicode.org/faq/indic.html#13)

Because these are not different letters of the alphabet. The special form of subscript YA plus a vowel sign yields a particular pronunciation, but this is a reading rule. No different from the English digraph <ch> being pronounced as [t<esh>].
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