Dear Paul O'Cuana

I wrote the two statements in the previous post as follows.

"The type of mute or assumed Devnagari / Sanskrit 'a' is represented
by the Burmese with a symbol somewhat similar to the nineth symbol
of the Combining Diacritical Marks within Arial Unicode MS font."

"I have just now tried out the nineth symbol of the Combining
Diacritcal Marks from Arial Unicode MS font."

Please correct 'the nineth symbol' to 'the nineteenth symbol' of the
Combining Diacritical Marks within Arial Unicode MS font.

Sorry for theinconvenience.

Suan Lu Zaw

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "abhidhammika" <suanluzaw@...> wrote:

Dear Paul O'Cuana

The type of mute or assumed Devnagari / Sanskrit 'a' is represented
by the Burmese with a symbol somewhat similar to the nineth symbol
of the Combining Diacritical Marks within Arial Unicode MS font.

If you must indicate such assumed 'a' after the right side of a bare
consonat, you could adopt that Burmese practice.

I have just now tried out the nineth symbol of the Combining
Diacritcal Marks from Arial Unicode MS font.

The Burmese call that type of symbol 'athat' where -th- sounds as
-th- in 'the'.

Written Burmese need many such symbols (athats) to indicate the mute
or assumed sounds.

Good luck!

Suan Lu Zaw



--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "paulocuana" <paulocuana@...> wrote:

Dear Suan Lu Zaw,

Thanks for your kind response. Perhaps I am demanding too much but
I still have the problem of combining consonants. For example,
every devnagari consonant has an assumed "short a" after it. So if
I were to write the "mm" in dhamma, the right side of the first "m"
is left off to show that there is no "a" between them. The fonts I
have tried, including Arial Unicode MS, don't seem to have this
capability, i.e. having special characters for consonant clusters.

Best Wishes,
Paul O'Cuana