Dear List Members, I understand that characters of different scripts, with equal appearance are dis-unified and have different Unicode codepoints, Latin E vs Greek U+0395 vs Cyrillic U+0414 a typical example.
I also understand that characters of one script having equal shapes in some fonts only, e.g. 0 and O are clearly not a candidate for sharing a Unicode codepoint. Now I'm wondering about Tamil LLA (U+0BB3) and Tamil AU Length Mark (U+0BD7). They not only have incidental equal shapes in the Font used for preparing the Unicode charts, they are also indistinguishable in handwritten Tamil, typewriter Tamil etc, I am told. So for all purposes: U+0B95 U+0BCC which is canonically equivalent to U+0B95 U+0BC7 U+0BD7 looks exactly the same as U+0B95 U+0BC7 U+0BB3 Isn't that a bit odd? Giving an analogy using Latin script, that would be the same as if Latin y U+0079 in vocalic and consonantic use were mapped to two different Unicode codepoints. 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! +++
