On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 6:29 AM, John Hudson <[email protected]> wrote: > However, other Malayalam fonts that I have looked at do not implement the > repha in this way, but instead represent conjunct-initial Ra with a full > form glyph. I would like to confirm whether this is the norm for the > reformed orthography, and if I should refrain from implementing the repha > shaping for this font (which does not seek to represent the traditional > orthography)?
Any above base form of reph in Malayalam should be considered a glyphic variant of the newly encoded DOT REPH. The RA-chillu is also encoded as a separate character. Therefore in the end it boils down to that RA + Virama (if not entering into any ligature or involving C2-conjoining form) should only be represented as [ra candrakala]. -- Shriramana Sharma
