--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, Marco Cimarosti <marco.cimarosti@...>
wrote:

> Richard Wordingham wrote:
> > One possible solution to the problem might indeed be to enter

Tamil

> > as Thai! The drawback is that one would have to use a special

fonts

> > to render Thai characters as Tamil glyphs, and [...]
>
> Luckily, the Unicode Consortium does not have an Inquisition

Tribunal, else

> nothing would save this heretic from the stake! :-)

Aren't they both variants of the Grantha script that have dispensed
with conjuncts?