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

>
> The actual virama should never appear in Punjabi text, and almost
> never in Hindi. For these two scripts, the code point

called "virama" in

> Unicode works most of the time as a sort of invisible control

character to

> form conjuncts.
>
> You can find plenty details about the process of displaying Indic

script in

> Chapter 9 of the Unicode specification:
>
> http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/ch09.pdf

I read it but I missed the part that might explain that the virama
has a different nominal glyph (that thing that gets stuck on the
keyboard) for Devanangari and Tamil. It also has two different
actions in Devanagari and Tamil, creating conjunct consonants in the
one and consonant clusters in the other. This information must be
in Uniscribe since it is not in the encoding.

Suzanne McCarthy