I was so glad that you got things so nearly right for once, and then you go and spoil it with:
> Another similar case would be the use of a isolated nukta (which > normally modifies a following base character): the sequence > <nukta, SPACE> Like all other combining characters, NUKTA follows the base character (the consonant) in the character stream. But I'm not sure if <consonant, nukta, vowel> *should* be any different from <consonant, vowel, nukta>, but maybe they should be different since they are not canonically equivalent. (But...) /kent k