[indic] Re: Displaying indic vowel sign independant of a consonant

[Santhosh Pillai]

This works if we only want to eliminate the preceding circle in one of vowel-sign/anusvaram/visargam.
How do we get to write if two of these are adjacent to one another?
Example: If we want the anusvaram is preceded immediately by the vowel sign, the ZWJ + ാ + ZWJ + ം does not seem to work.
Example:
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Also, it is common in English to write “Ahhhh…”, “Wooo Hooo”, “Eeee” to express certain emotions. The way most of the similar expressions are done in Malayalam is to extend the vowel sound at the end of a word, or extending the vowel at the end of a single stand-alone word.

For example,

ഹാാാാാ... (laughter/showing pain)
േേേേഠ... (sound of a gun)
പോകൂൂൂൂൂൂ! (Go!)

Thanks

From: indic-bounce at unicode.org [mailto:indic-bounce at unicode.org] On Behalf Of cibu cj
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 5:16 PM
To: Rajeev J Sebastian
Cc: indic at unicode.org
Subject: [indic] Re: Displaying indic vowel sign independant of a consonant

Thanks Rajeev!

<zwj + vowel-sign/anusvaram/visargam> seems to be working in XP.

Cibu
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Rajeev J Sebastian <rajeev.sebastian at gmail.com<mailto:rajeev.sebastian at gmail.com>> wrote:
Typical way to do this is space+zwj+vowel-sign/anusvaram/visargam. We
have implemented this, and I believe its already part of the Unicode
standard.

Regards
Rajeev J Sebastian

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:46 AM, cibu cj <cibucj at gmail.com<mailto:cibucj at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Once in a while I get the request to display vowel sign or anuswara
> sign independent of any consonant. My understanding was that
> <non-breaking-space, combining mark> will do the trick. Apparently, that
> does not in Windows XP where I tried. The dotted circle is always there. Is
> this a bug or lack of specs?
>
> Also, there is need for writing indic combining marks independent without a
> space before it. Please see this dictionary scan. The highlighted cluster is
> <Malayalam U, en dash, Malayalam anuswara>.
>
> Thanks,
> Cibu
>



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