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Zanabazar Square needs override to permit multiple medial vowels #48

Closed xadxura closed 1 month ago

xadxura commented 8 months ago

Per Unicode SAH: https://github.com/unicode-org/sah/issues/359 Zanabazar Square needs ISC overrides for the Zanabazar Cluster Finals to permit multiple occurences in a cluster.

NorbertLindenberg commented 8 months ago

If successful, this would fix USE bug 981.

xadxura commented 8 months ago

Candidate values:

Zanabazar Square

11A3A ; Consonant_With_Stacker # Lo ZANABAZAR SQUARE CLUSTER-INITIAL LETTER RA 11A3B..11A3E ; Nukta # Mn [4] ZANABAZAR SQUARE CLUSTER-FINAL LETTER YA..ZANABAZAR SQUARE CLUSTER-FINAL LETTER VA

xadxura commented 8 months ago

See also: https://github.com/notofonts/zanabazar-square/issues/8

dscorbett commented 8 months ago

Instead of Nukta for the cluster-final letters, I suggest Consonant_Subjoined. It comes to the same thing in the context of this script, but it is a more accurate description of these characters.