SundaraRaman R wrote:
but the very common pulli (VIRAMA) is neither in Lo nor has 'Other_Alphabetic', and so leads to concluding any string containing it to be non-alphabetic.
Is this definition part of Unicode? I thought the use of General Category to answer questions like "this sequence is a word" or "this string is alphabetic" was much more complex than that. (I'm not even sure what the latter means, for any script with any sort of combining mark.)
Richard Wordingham wrote:
The effects of virama that spring to mind are: (a) Causing one or both letters on either side to change or combine to indicate combination; (b) Appearing as a mark only if it does not affect one of the letters on either side; (c) Causing a left matra to appear on the left of the sequence of consonants joined by a sequence of non-visible viramas.
Most of these don't apply to Tamil, of course. -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, US | ewellic.org
