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@puneet_sapaliga @lianghai Stumbled on this discussion.

Please long press on അ or ്. Then you would see the option of →് which is virama + ZWNJ

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@TiroTypeworks I prefer the left one, but don't know why 🙁

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@TiroTypeworks That simplification would have happened if it were ever used 😊

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@a_srinidhi @GutStrings @cobbaltt @oligoglot @IndoLanguages I can imagine that Malayalam 'accha' (or 'acchan' for father) could be related to 'ajja'.

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@TiroTypeworks @santhoshtr @rajeeshknambiar @kavya_manohar Great! Eagerly waiting for its public access.

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@TiroTypeworks @santhoshtr @rajeeshknambiar @kavya_manohar If people followed a common unified transliteration scheme like ISO 15919 that comparison would be easy.

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@TiroTypeworks @santhoshtr @rajeeshknambiar @kavya_manohar @TiroTypeworks If you are planning to fork one for Sanskrit, Aiswarya is gathering ligatures found in various Sanskrit documents: https://t.co/FvSU37Qtn8 to be included in the FreeFont. This goes beyond the conjuncts included in various RIT and SMC traditional orthography fonts.

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@TiroTypeworks @santhoshtr @rajeeshknambiar @kavya_manohar Just curious: why would you characterize the use of format control characters as less robust?

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@TiroTypeworks @santhoshtr @rajeeshknambiar @kavya_manohar SG. Pure Sanskrit usage Vs current Malayalam usage seems reasonable. However, ligature forms listed in Grammatica Grandonica are not particularly rare. If you are not planning to show Chandrakkala, then that is how you would display them - as a stacked form.

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@TiroTypeworks @santhoshtr @rajeeshknambiar @kavya_manohar Even in traditional orthography, you might need to classify some conjuncts as archaic and do not display stacked by default. If you want to keep them optional, then you could use the ZWJ+Virama. Example, ങ്ഭ (NG-BHA) is not a stacking ligature in current traditional fonts.

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@TiroTypeworks @santhoshtr @rajeeshknambiar @kavya_manohar Are you planning to implement <consonant, ZWJ, VIRAMA, consonant> and <consonant, ZWNJ, VIRAMA, consonant> sequences mentioned in the Unicode standard to force ligature or open forms? (You might have mentioned it earlier. I couldn't find it though.)

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@TiroTypeworks @santhoshtr @rajeeshknambiar @kavya_manohar 👍 Agree with you. Happy to participate in those discussions to share whatever little I know and also to think and learn more on those.

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@TiroTypeworks @rajeeshknambiar @santhoshtr @kavya_manohar Have you looked at https://t.co/gLZqGfQkdL ? This books lists many Malayalam ligatures used for writing Sanskrit.

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@TiroTypeworks @a_srinidhi @kavya_manohar @santhoshtr Detached loops alone existed for some letters; however the vertical handle/tail is purely the invention of the reformers - as far as I can tell.

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@TiroTypeworks Awesome!

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@Anish_Viswa Nothing alarming here. This is just evolution of the script in front of our eyes.

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@TiroTypeworks @Anish_Viswa @rajeeshknambiar @santhoshtr People usually consider the last two as the variants for NG-NGA. Regarding the first one, I would go with Sridatta's hypothesis.

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@Anish_Viswa @TiroTypeworks @rajeeshknambiar @santhoshtr I haven't seen such a thing. Could you please share the scan or photo of this from a book or a mss?

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@Anish_Viswa @TiroTypeworks @rajeeshknambiar @santhoshtr Could you please share the variant forms for ങ്ക & ഐ ?