On 2011.09.27 22:56, delex r wrote: >I hope a proposal will come in near future to include an additional letter >'Khya' which is as per our (Assamese)script is not considered as a >biconsonantal conjunct as in Devanagari 0915 (Hex) + 0937 (Hex)and instead >given a full fledged letter status.( I checked in my primary school alphabet >book).
>From the quick bit of research I've done, it seems that khya is currently >represented by the sequence U+0995 U+09CD U+09B7 (BENGALI LETTER KA, BENGALI >SIGN VIRAMA, BENGALI LETTER SSA). As such, Unicode's policy would be not to >encode khya as a separate letter unless a very compelling case is made to >disunify it—and the argument that it's a single letter in Assamese isn't >strong enough. However, U+0995 U+09CD U+09B7 can be made a named sequence, which means that one name would be available to identify the sequence as if it were any ordinary character. —Ben Scarborough
