Re: Unicode Tibetan (Was: syllable level encoding in unicode)

At 22:54 -0400 2004-06-02, John Cowan wrote:

>suzmccarth scripsit:
>
>> This seems to me to be the only logical answer. I can't think why
> > else Tamil couldn't have precomposed characters for aksharas since
> > Canadian Syllabics works for 3 languages with fairly different
> > syllable structure, Western Cree, Naskapi and Inuit.
>
>Well, not using the abugida model for the Indic scripts would have
>gobbled up immense numbers of codepoints, since CV and CCV and even
>CCCV are possible in certain languages.

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