[Harfbuzz-indic] Unicode vs OpenType: nukta after vowel

Shriramana Sharma samjnaa at gmail.com
Tue Jul 5 08:39:35 PDT 2011


On 07/05/2011 08:34 PM, Chapman, Christopher wrote:
> The examples I cited were of a below-base dot that modifies matra
> (dependent vowels).  Again, see page 15 of:
> https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/noonan/www/Recent%20Adaptions%20of%20the%20Devanagari%20Script%20for%20the.pdf

Thank you for this most interesting link. And IMHO it is clear that such 
text should use COMBINING DOT BELOW. Such (vowel) modifiers are common 
in IPA too -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPA#Diacritics and they are 
all represented by COMBINING characters.

-- 
Shriramana Sharma


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