The character U+0904 (DEVANAGARI LETTER SHORT A) is not a part of ISCII 91. Neither was it encoded in any of the earlier versions of ISCII. Hence according to the ISCII standard this character simply cannot be formed.
Aparna A. Kulkarni -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ernest Cline Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 10:59 AM To: Unicode List Subject: Devanagari Letter Short A I've been trying to make sense of the Indian scripts, but am having one small difficulty. I can't seem to find the ISCII 1991 equivalent for U+0904 (DEVANAGARI LETTER SHORT A). Is this a character that is part of the set accessed by the extended code (xF0) or was this part of the ISCII 1988 standard that did not survive the changes to ISCII 1991? Alternatively, does ISCII encode this as xA4 + xE0 as this would seem to generate the proper glyph even tho it violates the syllable grammar given in Section 8 of ISCII? Or even more alternatively, am I just missing something that should be obvious, but which for some reason I can't see? Even with the slight differences in the naming conventions between ISCII and Unicode, I don't seem to be misplacing any of the other vowels or consonants. Ernest Cline [EMAIL PROTECTED]
