Re: Alternative encodings for Malayalam “nta”

[Cibu via Unicode]

Yes; it is now available as L2/19-348
<http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetMatchingDocs.pl?L2/19-348>.

On Sun, Oct 6, 2019 at 11:03 PM Asmus Freytag (c) <asmusf at ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

> Have you submitted that response as a UTC document?
> A./
>
> 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> 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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