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

[Rajeev J Sebastian]

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> 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
>