Peter Jacobi > To re-iterate - in the original post, the string in question did > consist of side by side characters, not ligated in any font known > to me. And the legacy Tamil enocings have for obvious reasons no > problem to style any single character.
This specific case is not the one of "side-by-side" characters, but the the case of _one_ character which is combining around a base letter as two separate glyphs. These individual glyphs are those that were used on typewriters, instead of the single abstract letter. So on typewriters, you could color them individually, even if they were denoting a single letter. There was then no key on the typewriter keyboard to enter this character, and these glyphs had the actual status of coded characters. Even the base letter in the middle of the two combining glyphs will then have its own style or color: this is the exhibited coloring feature in Tamil, where the base letter is colored, but not its combining character that follows it. On typewriters, there was simply no combining characters but plain characters representing each part of the glyph and that's why it worked. __________________________________________________________________ << ella for Spam Control >> has removed Spam messages and set aside Newsletters for me You can use it too - and it's FREE! http://www.ellaforspam.com
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