Burmese Rendering (dots and circles)

[James Kass]

On 2022-09-02 6:49 PM, Richard Wordingham via Unicode wrote:
> The evidence for some subscript forms is hard to come by.  Some rare
> examples of Shan Pali subscript consonants can be found at
> https://github.com/notofonts/myanmar/issues/19  .  UTN-11 contains the
> self-contradictory statement, "Not every consonant can
> be stacked, and while theoretically any consonant can take a subjoined
> form, not all implementations will necessarily need to support all
> subjoined forms".  Acting on this, the Shan Pali consonants are not
> included in the element 'stacked', and Padauk does not support them.
"... theoretically any consonant can take a subjoined form..."

Since that is a convention of the writing system.

"...not all implementations will necessarily need to support all 
subjoined forms."

IMO, that's a presumption akin to thinking that native users would never 
want to use their own script to phonetically spell out a foreign word.  
Such as names of Aztec gods, for example.

>> If not, why was a certain font's lack of support for a "virama plus"
>> sequence mentioned in a derogatory fashion?
> The UTS calls out for support of <VIRAMA, WA>, and a one-time
> programmer of the font, Martin Hosken, supported assertions of its
> existence.
So when the aforementioned fonts treat VIRAMA+WA as a defective 
sequence, they are doing so in accordance with UTN11 and in spite of 
precedent (viz. N3043 etc.).

Thank you for the explanations and the helpful pointers.