Re: Malayalam rendering

[Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>]

In article <87smuecj1w.fsf@vsnl.net>, gnu@vsnl.net (Ramakrishnan M) writes:
> One issue is that the Malayalam section as it is, now in the Unicode
> standard has problems. There is a set of 5 characters called "Chillaksharam"
> which are not there in the standard. TDIL (some organization in Govt of India
> which does language related work) has proposed some new changes, which 
> sort of, solves this issue. So current tools handle "chillaksharams" is their
> own non-standard way. One way is <base char>+<halant>+<ZWJ>. This might be a 
> reason you see alot of ZWJ in that text. I may be wrong though...

I see.  Apart from the correctness of that non-standard way,
if the Unicode standard requires that such a sequence should
be rendered correctly, Emacs should support it.  Do you know
what Unicode requires?  Perhaps, supporting ZWNJ is
necessary as well.

Kawabata-san, is it difficult to support ZWJ and ZWNJ?

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Ken'ichi HANDA
handa@m17n.org