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Actually, your "decomposed" version still has clusters that are different from the individual characters making them up. There's क्, which is क plus ् (OK, that
by jfk13 8y ago
Actually, your "decomposed" version still has clusters that are different from the individual characters making them up. There's क्, which is क plus ् (OK, that one's easy); more significantly, you've left त्रि as a single unit whereas it is made up of त + ् + र + ि.
So "spelled-out", क्षत्रिय is made up of क ् ष त ् र ि य . I don't know if Unifont tries to render the combining characters as zero-width overstrikes, or what, but much more than that is needed for a readable result.
- jessaustin 8y agoWow thanks for spelling that out. That seems like a challenging script!
- a1369209993 8y agoThat looks plenty readable. Ugly as hell, sure, but not any worse then 3N6|_15H \/\/R1773N 45 1337 5P34|<, for example. It's a vast improvement over [0915][094D][0937][0924][094D][0930][093F][092F].
- Arnavion 8y agoThe problem is that the vowel ` ि` is in a misleading position in the decomposed form. It implies a spelling of kshatrayi instead of kshatriya, unless you happen to know that Unicode requires it to be there and the font engine is supposed to move it to its correct place in the ligature. (This comment is a good equivalent of the problem in English. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19575942 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19575942 )