Yes that is one solution.
A more permanant solution will include, in addition to NZWJ, a font without
complex rendering of selective matras. (Ie a plain linear even text without
NZWJ is the goal).
Yes, both of these require removal of dotted circle facility.
A text written for default encoding would also be readable in the one
without the ZWNJ format. ie, it is not dependent on source file, but depend
on how you want to read. For this NZWJ will not help.
Sinnathurai
----- Original Message -----
From: "N. Ganesan" <[email protected]>
To: "Unicode Mailing List" <[email protected]>
Sent: 10 June 2010 16:22
Subject: Re: Tamil u,uu matra consonants - Orthographic variation
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 2:04 PM, SS <[email protected]> wrote:
What we need is
1/the removal of dotted circles
Currently the problem is w.r.t. IE browsers, MS Word, PPT etc.,
When ZWNJ is used, a dotted circle shows up.
In order to avoid the dotted circle for making unligated u, uu matra
consonants for Tamil, the Standard has to have a section
explaing the orthographic variation. Just like in Malayalam
text section.
Once documented Microsoft products (Word, PPT, Silverlight, ...)
Adobe (Flash, DTP products InDesign, CorelDraw), Apple iPhone, iPad
and all browsers (Google Chrome, Firefox and IE) should be able
to show the unligate u,uu forms without dotted circles
in the web, pdf etc.,
N. Ganesan
