What is wrong with combinations? Anyone computing with Unicode should be able to understand a combining character as a part of the preceding character.

For characters such as ऋ, ॠ, ऌ, ॡ, no one should use any private area characters. They are not officially sanctioned. 

The official character combination for ऋ is: r̥ (r + 0x325)
The official character combination for ॠ is: r̥̄ (r + x0325 + x0304)
The official character combination for ऌ is: l̥ (l + 0x325)
The official character combination for ॡ is: l̥̄ (l + x0325 + x0304)

ISO 15919 transliterations
ISODevanagariBengaliGujaratiOriyaTeluguKannadaMalayalamSinghalese
r̥ऋঋઋଋఋಋഋඍ
r̥̄ॠৠૠୠౠೠൠඎ
l̥ऌঌઌଌఌಌഌඏ
l̥̄ॡৡૡୡౡೡൡඐ

Look at all the combinations that are possible with letter r: http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/unicode/unicsel/lat/0072.htm

Suresh.

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 3:12 AM, Gruenendahl, Reinhold via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:
Dear Richard,
thanks for the hint. All this leads me to believe that the "underring" combinations have not been defined as such. I found the said  definitions (&#59444; etc.) in Gandhari Unicode, I believe. Perhaps they were defined in some "private area" of that encoding, which I don't recall. Given that underring r and l are widely used in Indology and Indo-European linguistics, I can hardly believe that nobody ever cared to register them as "official" Unicode characters.

Best wishes,
Reinhold


________________________________________
Von: Richard Mahoney | Indica et Buddhica [rmahoney@fastmail.com]
Gesendet: Montag, 16. Januar 2017 21:09
An: indology@list.indology.info
Cc: r.mahoney@indica-et-buddhica.org; Gruenendahl, Reinhold
Betreff: Re: [INDOLOGY] HTML definition of Unicode characters for r and l with "underring"?

Dear Reihold,

This file dated 17/5/16 doesn't seem to include r under ring:

ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UnicodeData.txt

Though it does contain the following:

grep  -nH 'LETTER R ' ./UnicodeData.txt

...

./UnicodeData.txt:6759:1E5A;LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R WITH DOT BELOW;Lu;0;L;0052 0323;;;;N;;;;1E5B;

./UnicodeData.txt:6760:1E5B;LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH DOT BELOW;Ll;0;L;0072 0323;;;;N;;;1E5A;;1E5A

./UnicodeData.txt:6761:1E5C;LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R WITH DOT BELOW AND MACRON;Lu;0;L;1E5A 0304;;;;N;;;;1E5D;

./UnicodeData.txt:6762:1E5D;LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH DOT BELOW AND MACRON;Ll;0;L;1E5B 0304;;;;N;;;1E5C;;1E5C

...

Grep finished (matches found) at Tue Jan 17 09:00:46



Best, R




On Mon, 16 Jan 2017 15:37:50 +0000
"Gruenendahl, Reinhold via INDOLOGY" <indology@list.indology.info>
wrote:

> Yes, thanks, but are the combinations not defined as a whole any
> more, like their "underdot" counterparts?
>
> R.G:
>
> ________________________________________
> Von: François Patte [francois.patte@mi.parisdescartes.fr]
> Gesendet: Montag, 16. Januar 2017 16:32
> An: Gruenendahl, Reinhold; indology@list.indology.info
> Betreff: Re: [INDOLOGY] HTML definition of Unicode characters for r
> and l with "underring"?
>
> Le 16/01/2017 16:22, Gruenendahl, Reinhold via INDOLOGY a écrit :
> > Dear list members,
> > I would be much obliged for any information concerning the current
> > HTML definitions for (vocalic) r, R, l, and L, long and short, with
> > underring (not underdot).
> > The definitions I found some years ago (e.g., &#59444; for
> > R-underring and &#59445 for r-underring) do not seem to be valid
> > anymore. I have searched Alan Wood's site, but in vain.
>
> You have combine letters with an under-ring: &#805;  ie: r&#805; or
> l&#805;
>
>
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