The biggest issue for indic is where the (n)j occurs before a halant. ------------------------------ Mark <https://plus.google.com/114199149796022210033> * * *— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —* **
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 13:17, Eric Mader <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks. The actual case I found is Devanagari: SA + ZWNJ + ANUSVARA. Does > this have some special meaning, or is it the same as the A-ACUTE case? > > Regards, > Eric > > > On 2/27/12 9:23 AM, Mark Davis ☕ wrote: > > In TUS, in http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.1.0/ch03.pdf > > D56 Combining character sequence: A maximal character sequence > consisting of either a > base character followed by a sequence of one or more characters where each > is a > combining character, zero width joiner, or zero width non-joiner; or a > sequence of one or more characters where each is a combining character, > zero > width joiner, or zero width non-joiner. > > ... > > So 'a' is the base character for the acute. The clauses with zwj/nj are > really designed for Indic and similar scripts. The rendering isn't > specified for other cases, but where the zwj/nj are not defined to have an > effect, they should* be ignored for normal rendering. That being said, this > is such an edge case that I don't think the 'should' is enough to jump > through hoops for. > > ------------------------------ > Mark <https://plus.google.com/114199149796022210033> > * > * > *— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —* > ** > > > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 09:37, Eric Mader <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I searched the list archives and didn't find anything that addressed this >> exact issue. If I see a sequence like a + ZWNJ + ACUTE, should it be >> rendered as a followed by an acute accent over a dotted circle, or should >> it be rendered as A-ACUTE? >> >> (The actual case I hit was in Devanagari, but it seems to me that the >> question applies to all scripts with non-spacing marks) >> >> Regards, >> Eric Mader >> >> >> >
