eMantra Information wrote: > I have a question regarding certain charachers in devnagari unicode pages. > > There are additional consonents àà (U+0958) ,àà (U+0959) ,àà(U+095A) , > and àà,àà,àà,àà,àà > > why separate code points are defined for these? > > when such can be formed by combination of à (U+ 0915) + à (U+093C) > = àà
Probably for the same reason that precomposed Latin a-with-acute (Ã, U+00E1) is encoded even though it can be composed from U+0061 + U+0301: compatibility with legacy character sets. The Devanagari characters for which you gave code points have been in Unicode since at least version 1.1, so they were probably part of ISCII or some other legacy code page. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
