Re: Alternative encodings for Malayalam “nta”

[Asmus Freytag (c) via Unicode]

Have you submitted that response as a UTC document?
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On 10/6/2019 2:08 PM, Cibu wrote:
> Thanks for addressing this. Here is my response: 
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K6L82VRmCGc9Fb4AOitNk4MT7Nu4V8aKUJo_1mW5X1o/
>
> In summary, my take is:
>
> The sequence <NA, VIRAMA, RRA> for ൻ്റ (<<chillu N, subscript RRA>>) 
> should not be legitimized as an alternate encoding; but should be 
> recognized as a prevailing non-standard legacy encoding.
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 6, 2019 at 7:57 PM 梁海 Liang Hai <lianghai at gmail.com 
> <mailto:lianghai at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Folks,
>
>     (Microsoft Peter and Andrew, search for “Windows” in the document.)
>
>     (Asmus, in the document there’s a section 5, /ICANN RZ-LGR
>     situation/—let me know if there’s some news.)
>
>     This is a pretty straightforward document about the notoriously
>     problematic encoding of Malayalam </chillu n/, bottom-side sign of
>     /rra/>. I always wanted to properly document this, so finally here
>     it is:
>
>         L2/19-345
>         <http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetMatchingDocs.pl?L2/19-345>
>         *Alternative encodings for Malayalam "nta"*
>         Liang Hai
>         2019-10-06
>
>
>     Unfortunately, as <NA, VIRAMA, RRA> has already become the de
>     facto standard encoding, now we have to recognize it in the Core
>     Spec. It’s a bit like another Tamil /srī/ situation.
>
>     An excerpt of the proposal:
>
>         Document the following widely used encoding in
>         the Core Specification as an alternative representation for
>         Malayalam [glyph] (<chillu n, bottom-side sign of rra>) that
>         is a special case and does not suggest any productive rule in
>         the encoding model:
>
>         <U+0D28 ന MALAYALAM LETTER NA, U+0D4D ◌് MALAYALAM SIGN
>         VIRAMA, U+0D31 റ MALAYALAM LETTER RRA>
>
>
>     Best,
>     梁海 Liang Hai
>     https://lianghai.github.io
>

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