Re: Grantha

"Daniel A. Wier" wrote:

> Problem though -- the conjunct <ks.> and <jn~> characters are not included
> in Devanagari or any other Indic script.  Why I do not know, since those are
> very important in all Indian languages!
The Unicode/ISCII model for Indic characters is that you don't encode conjuncts
directly, as there may be hundreds of them in high-quality typography.  Instead,
you encode using the Virama character (in Unicode there is a separate one for
each script).  So "ks.a" is encoded as "k"+Virama+"s.", but displayed using
the ligature; encoding "k"+"s." alone displays "ka s.a", two separate characters.
If no conjunct exists, an explicit virama will be displayed.  There are also
special encodings for suppressing conjuncts and for generating half consonants.

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