Re: [sinhala-technical] When repaya is not available

[Ruvan W. <ar...@uc...>]

hi takahashi,

you are now quite an expert in sinhala! unlike the yansaya and 
rakaransaya, not supporting repaya is no BIG deal (in fact many people 
just avoid using it). so, option 1 is the most suitable form. all the 
others will not parse ;-)

regards,

ruvan.


TAKAHASHI Naoto wrote:
> Suppose that you are using a Sinhala font that does not support
> repaya.  What should be displayed on the screen for the following
> sequence?
>
>   0DBB 0DCA 200D 0D9A (ra al-lakuna zwj ka)
>
> Possible answers:
>
> 1. Firstly ra with al-lakuna, then ka.
>    (As repaya is not available, use its equivalent representation.)
>
> 2. Firstly ra with al-lakuna, then an explicit zwj mark, then ka.
>    (To let the user know that the rendering has failed.)
>
> 3. Firstly ka, then ra with al-lakuna.
>    (The rendering engine should reorder repaya.  It is the font that
>    is bad.)
>
> 4. Firstly ka, then ra with al-lakuna, then an explicit zwj mark.
>    (Ditto.)
>
>