Michael Everson Wrote: > Mijan, > > Unicode has a mechanism for producing the ya-phalaa conjunct, namely > by preceding the ya with virama. This works also in the unusual > situation where the "consonant" the ya-phalaa modifies is an > independent vowel. > > A + VIRAMA + YA + -AA (this is aa-yaphalaa) > RA + VIRAMA + ZWJ + YA (this is the reph-ya) > RA + VIRAMA + YA (this is the ra-yaphalaa)
I said that I was not going to discuss this with you any further. I can now no longer resist! :-) Saying "RA + VIRAMA + ZWJ + YA = reph-ya" will not be acceptable. Implementing this will break all existing implementations. All current Fonts and Bengali Unicode texts rely on Ra+Virama+Ya as being representative of the more common reph-ya. Moreover, RA + VIRAMA + YA cannot represent "Ra-yaphalaa" as Ra+Virama is relied upon as being representative of Reph. For example, in the Indic OpenType secifications, you will see that a Ra+Virama is recognised as reph before any other processing is applied. Andy
