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Dot-Reph and Subscript YA/VA Sequences in Malayalam Unicode

Naga Ganesan

(naa.ganesan@gmail.com) May 2, 2008

Malayalam script in Unicode is normally treated as an Indicscript with Reph (Cf. Table 9-23, TUS 5.0, pg. 336, MalayalamConjuncts). For example, "rpa" conjunct <ra, virama, pa> isdefined in Table 9-23 which produces the dot-reph.Table 3 in L2/07-402 gives a list of possible Visuals withDot-Reph over YA or VA for Malayalam. This document proposes asimple set of dot-reph sequences in Unicode to represent all theVisuals in Table 3, L2/07-402 for UTC consideration. ApprovedDot-Reph sequences should be documented in the next version ofthe Unicode Standard explicitly. Right now, the developers andusers of Malayalam Unicode are not given clear instructions onhow to handle Reph seqeuncesWhile making the following list of Malayalam reph sequences inTables 1 through 3, particular attention has been made to treatthe Reph in Malayalam in the usual manner as listed in TUS 5.0or earlier. So, minimum changes, if any, are needed for dot-rephsequences.

Table 1. Dot Reph RA + YA

Visual Suggested Encoding in TUSNotes

1 CHILLU RR, YA2RA, ZWJ, VIRAMA, YAAs inKannada.Pg. 334,TUS 5.03 RA, VIRAMA, ZWNJ, YA4RA, VIRAMA, YARegularreph5 RA, VIRAMA, YA, VIRAMA, YA

L2/08-195

Table 2. Dot Reph RA + VAVisual Suggested Encoding in 5.1 Notes

1 CHILLU RR, VA2RA, ZWJ, VIRAMA, VAAs inKannada.Pg. 334,TUS 5.03 RA, VIRAMA, ZWNJ, VA4RA, VIRAMA, VARegularreph5 RA, VIRAMA, VA, VIRAMA, VA

Table 3. Dot Reph RA + SSAVisual Suggested Encoding in 5.1

RA, VIRAMA, SSA

In Row 2, Tables 1 and 2, <ra, zwj, virama, ya/va> is used for{RA_SUBSCRIPT_YA/VA} sequence. The use of ZWJ for inMalayalam

is parallel withKannada Unicodein a similar situation. Page334, TUS 5.0“

Consonant Clusters involving RA.

Whenever a consonant clusteris formed with the U+0CB0

ర

KANNADA LETTER RA as the firstcomponent of the consonant cluster, the letter

is depictedwith two different presentation forms: one as the initialelement and the other as the final display element of theconsonant cluster.

of 00

08195-malayalam

Examples of Malayalam repha being represented in Unicode as sequences without any need for atomic dot-reph.

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