Hi James, Michael, Marco, All, Thank you for providing the references which seem to settle the SRI /SHRI issue:
http://www.unicode.org/alloc/Pipeline.html http://wwwold.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/docs/n2617 Reading the references and James' other reply: > Perhaps this could be stated as '... Tamil doesn't form many conjunct > consonants'? A more general issue asked for attention. See this snippet from N2617: > Proposed character SHA may also form various other ligatures in combination > with MA, YA, RA, and VA. > However, these ligatures are archaic and are not widely recognized. Contemporary > publications only use disjoint forms. So, which codepoint sequence will imply the disjoint form and which will imply the ligated form? If 'Indic unification' still holds, the conjunct form always is the default and the disjoint form needs ZWNJ. IMHO this doesn't fit well actual Tamil use and raises a lot of practical problems. Either there must be an accepted list of these ligatures (but lists of archaic usage tend to grow), or one is bound to put a preemptive ZWNJ after every SHA VIRAMA in modern use, to prevent conjunct consonant forming. If this archaic ligature problems extends to other grantha consonants, even more preemptive ZWNJs are necessary for contempary Tamil. Regards, Peter Jacobi -- NEU F�R ALLE - GMX MediaCenter - f�r Fotos, Musik, Dateien... Fotoalbum, File Sharing, MMS, Multimedia-Gru�, GMX FotoService Jetzt kostenlos anmelden unter http://www.gmx.net +++ GMX - die erste Adresse f�r Mail, Message, More! +++
