Malayalam Related Topics

-x is the symbol of vowel x
m_ is the anuswara
~  is the virama
H  is the visarga


n_    =  n ~ zw space= [1A2B.0020]
n~    =  n ~         = [1A2B.0021]
nu~   =  n ~         = [1A2B.0022]


na    =  n ~ -a      = [1A2B.0021], [1A08.0020]
naa   =  n ~ -aa     = [1A2B.0021], [1A0A.0020]
..
nau   =  n ~ -au     = [1A2B.0021], [1A17.0020]


n~a   =  n ~ a       = [1A2B.0021], [1A08.0021]
...
n~au  =  n ~ au      = [1A2B.0021], [1A17.0021]


nka   =  n ~ k ~ -a  = [1A2B.0021], [1A18.0021], [1A08.0020]
...

Together with anuswara

m_ka  = ng ~ k ~ -a  = [1A1C.0021], [1A18.0021], [1A08.0020]
...
m_ja  = ny ~ j ~ -a  = [1A21.0021], [1A1F.0021], [1A08.0020]
...
m_ta  = ny ~ j ~ -a  = [1A2B.0021], [1A27.0021], [1A08.0020]
...
m_ya  =  m ~ y ~ -a  = [1A30.0021], [1A31.0021], [1A08.0020]
...

• 'n' and '~' together form a contraction.
• 'na' is represented by an expansion. The symbol of 'a' is a fictitious entity appear only in collation.
• n_, n~ and nu~ have same in primary level with value. But they are different in secondary level. One could very well differentiate 'nu~' from 'n~' in primary level also. This is just a usage example of an generic framework: splitting Consonant and Consonant+vowel-sign as 'n ~ -x'
  

1. Chillus and virama forms are diacritics of base character. So diacritics themselves have to be level-1 ignorable; but should have some weight in level-2. Also, chillu can be thought of as a virama form (vowellessness) + a zero width hidden whitespace. This can be achieved by keeping the secondary value of a chillu less than the virama form.
2. Simillarly the full form of a vowel differ from its sign only in secondary value.
   
3. The AllKeys file containing the Default Unicode Collation Element Table (DUCET), and does not currently handle Malayalam accurately. For example, ZWJ is by default ignorable, and NNA + VIRAMA + ZWJ, NNA + VIRAMA are treated as equal.
4. Why is there an expansion for malayalam digits? In which level should the digit zero of different scripts should differ?
   
5. If Chillus are encoded, the following equivalance should not be used for tailoring:

   0D7F = 0D15 0D4D 200D

   ...
   The behavior of 0D15 0D4D 200D is different from chillu as explained in the solution to Ken's counter-challenge for chillu-challenge.

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