I find it strange that the Unicode Standard does not codify the ligatures which can be produced with the languages of the Indian subcontinent at display time using specific sequences of regular Unicode characters so that someone skilled in the art of font design may design a font from the code charts.
Someone skilled in the art of font design doesn't need to see all possible ligatures reproduced in a code chart. Trust me, anyone designing typefaces for Indic scripts understands the difference between a character and a glyph.
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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