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Richard Wordingham wrote:
> Neil Harris wrote:
>
>> I think you might meet some opposition to including the following in
>> IDNs:
>>
> ...
>> ZWNJ and ZWJ (unless Indic experts can make a _very_ good case for
>> these being used only in contexts where they cause _visible_ and
>> _unambiguous_ rendering changes)
> ...
>
> Well, that rules out about half the words in Burmese! I suppose
> there's the work around of replacing the virama - U+1039 U+200C
> ('VIRAMA' ZWNJ) - by U+1039 U+005F ( 'VIRAMA' LOW LINE) -
> extremely unnatural for a language that doesn't have spaces between
> words.
>
> Richard.
>
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Oh, and it looks like ZWJ is needed, too:

http://www.unicode.org/faq/indic.html#19

-- Neil

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