Just about the name paluta:
In Sanskrit, the length of vowels are measured in maaþra (a cognate of
the word 'meter'). It is the spoken length of a short vowel. In Latin it
is termed mora. Usually, you have only single and double length vowels.
A paluþa length is like when you call out somebody from a distance.
Pluta is a careless use of spelling. Virama and Halanta are two other
terms loosely used.
Anyway, Unicode is only about DISPLAYING a script: There's a shape here;
Let's find how to get it by assembling other shapes or by creating a
code point for it. What is short, long or longer in speech is no concern
for Unicode.
On 4/27/2017 1:57 PM, Srinidhi A via Unicode wrote:
The annotation of 0F85 ྅ TIBETAN MARK PALUTA says it is used for
avagraha. However it seems this character denotes pluta instead of
avagraha. Pluta is used for indicating elongation of vowel.
Similar character with identical glyph is encoded in Soyombo( 11A9D )
with name as pluta. These characters are likely derive from digit ३ as
३ is used in Devanagari for indicating pluta.
Figure 2 of L2/16-016 shows the usage of TIBETAN MARK PALUTA for Pluta.
What is the correct spelling in Tibetan language Paluta or Pluta?
Can Tibetan scholars clarify the usage of above character?
If 0F85 is used for Pluta ,are there any distinct characters denoting
avagraha in Tibetan script.
Srinidhi A
