[INDOLOGY] Sinhala half nasal plus m

[Harry Spier]

Thank you for this information Suresh.

Suresh wrote:


   1. Please don't use ṁ for transcribing the half nasal. ṁ is used for
   anusvāra in ISO-15919. Sinhala should be using ISO-15919, not IAST. ṃ is
   not used in ISO-15919.
   2. ...
   3. *m̐ should serve your purposes for representing the labial
   prenasalized consonant *ඹ (U+0DB9 SINHALA LETTER AMBA BAYANNA)

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This is of course a workable work-around but the ISO 15919 standard for
this letter is m with chandra over it not chandrabindu.  Suresh can you
confirm if there is a unicode letter of m with chandra over it.  Is there a
procedure to add new letters to Unicode.  I would think its reasonable that
all ISO 15919 letters were included in Unicode as single glyphs.

Thanks,
Harry Spier


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