How to disable Indic syllable form editing in MS word

[maxwell via Indic]

On 2017-12-07 06:51, हरिराम via Indic wrote:
> Yes, Really this is serious limitation for Indic Editing,
> 
> As some WildCards featurs, Search & replace of special characters like
> ZWJ/ZWNJ also does not work for Indic Data.

I haven't done any significant editing of Indic text, but I can 
sympathize.  I use the programmer's editor jEdit (which works on 
Windows, Linux and Mac).  Up until version 5.1, it treated combining 
diacritics as separate characters for purposes of editing--so you could 
edit them separately, search for them, etc.  Then, to fix some other 
bug, they began to be treated as part of the preceding base character.  
For many people, that's probably ok; it was not helpful for me, though.  
My bug report is here:
    http://jedit.org/trackers/Bugs/3884.html
The bug report focuses on determining what the Unicode code point of a 
character is, but alludes to the search problem.

I suspect every editor treats things like this differently...  Some 
tools (like SIL's Fieldworks Language Explorer, FLEx) actually turn all 
NFC characters into NFD (or vice versa, I don't remember) under the 
hood.

In summary, I think this is a general problem, not confined to Indic 
text.  Not that this helps you any!

    Mike Maxwell
    University of Maryland