> I'm not(!) advocating a Bengali FVS, but adding such a beast would > in theory overcome Ken's objection about ignorability of variation > selectors, as it could have documented behavior that's not generic. > > However, that's got to be about the second least attractive option > imaginable. (Leaving the slot for truly least attractive option > open here for some as-yet-undiscovered monstrosity ;-)
BENGALI COMBINING KHANDA MODIFIER A combining mark, which only applies to a TA baseform, and which has the effect of reshaping the TA into a khanda-ta form. How's that for an alternative? --Ken ;-) Or, if you don't like that, we could have khanda-ta represented by the sequence of Latin letters, <k,h,a,n,d,a,-,t,a> and have the rendering engines and fonts remap that sequence to the appropriate glyph.
