--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...> wrote:

> NO SUCH THING AS A CVC AKSHARA. AKSHARAS DON'T CORRESPOND TO

SYLLABLES, JUST TO SEQUENCES OF CONSONANTS.

It looks as though Kharoshthi also had CVC units. Unfortunately I
only have the Unicode Standard and the corresponding proposal (
http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2524.pdf )to go by, but I've no
evidence from it that CVC and CCV were written differently. I don't
know which language CVC was written for - both Tocharian B and
Sanskrit are possibilities. The WWS does not mention how final
consonants were written - unless it is saying, in seeming
contradiction to the Unicode description, that Kharsohthi final
consonants were written the same way as Brahmi final consonants -
smaller and with a horizontal stroke above. The idea is the same for
the two scripts, but the detail seems to matter. Or could Brahmi
final consonants sometimes be indistinguishable from subjoined consonants?

I presume there was no choice as to how a CVCCV sequence should be
broken up into orthographic units, because I can't see how CVC.CV and
CV.CCV would be encoded separately in Unicode. Unicode encodes CVC
with the 'virama' *after* the final consonant, rather than before it.

Richard.