ISO 15919 Latin characters not in Unicode

[George Hart]

One of the most important Tamil characters is the aytam -- used in both
classical Tamil and modern Tamil.  Its symbol, according to
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/stone_catend/translit.htm, is k
with a line under it (in Tamil it is 3 dots arranged in a triangle with two
dots below and one above).  It does not seem to be present in the unicode
standard given at
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/stone_catend/triunico.htm.
Strangely enough, visarga, which does not exist in Tamil, is said to be
present in that language.  George Hart

On 1/21/02 10:33 AM, "Dominik Wujastyk" <ucgadkw at UCL.AC.UK> wrote:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 14:34:17 +0000
> From: Dr Anthony P Stone <stone_catend at compuserve.com>
> Subject: ISO 15919 Latin characters not in Unicode
>
> Dear Colleagues
>
> Now that ISO 15919 has been published, I am thinking about the Latin
> characters with diacritics which are not currently available in composed
> form in Unicode, but which are prescribed or recommended in ISO 15919.
>
> Grouped lists of these characters may be found under section U9 at:
>
> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/stone_catend/triunico.htm
>
> Those responsible for Unicode / ISO 10646 have decided not to
> encode any more chararacters which have decompositions into the
> standard.   So our best approach may be to point out to font publishers
> such as Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, Monotype, Linotype, etc., that support
> for these character combinations is needed in their OpenType fonts.
>
> Regards,  Tony
>
> Dr Anthony P. Stone, Project Leader for ISO 15919 on transliteration of
> Indic scripts under ISO/TC46/SC2/WG14.
>  Thinking aloud on transliteration:
> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/stone_catend/translit.htm
>  How to use ISO 15919:
> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/stone_catend/trind.htm
>