Is there any reason (apart from trying to be ISCII-conformant) why the Bangla word /ki/ "what" cannot be encoded as [KA][ZWJ][I]? Do we really need combining forms of vowels to encode Indian scripts? Also, why not use [CONS][ZWJ][CONS] instead of [CONS][VIRAMA][CONS]? One could then use [VIRAMA] only where it is explicit/visible.
Surely, [A/E][ZWJ][Y][ZWJ][AA] is more "natural" and intuitively acceptable than any encoding in which a vowel is followed by a [VIRAMA]? Gautam Sengupta School of Linguistics & Language Technology Jadavpur University Kolkata __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com
