VALUES OPINION -> IMPROVED SINHALA UNICODE (reading time 5 minutes or less) :

[Nayana Hettiarachchi]

Hey guys, 

in all seriousness what's the likelihood and and required force to create a new Unicode Page range for Sinhala-(Improved) 

core problem -> incorrect use of zero-width-joiner in the current implementation i.e. ා ෙ these two does not require a zero-width joiner i mean take examples of code pages that has much more usage such as thai เ า ะ are exactly the same thing. but no zero-width-joiner makes it so easy to type and does not lead to issues such as shown below 

DESIGN LEADING TO IMPLEMENTATION PROBLEMS SPECIFIC TO NOTO-SANS AND CHROME

SAFARI SOME HOW WORKS THROUUGH THAT​

​

also other minor issues such as that

අ ආ අ ා (are 3 different values) so ආ is not really අ +  ා its not its own value. 

maybe we can make the scope a bit bigger by taking all the derived languages into consideration which potentially can allow mapping into word origins and meanings with from with in the encoding

Thoughts????

[Harshula]

Hi Nayana,

1) I suspect the problems you are facing are with your input method.
What operating system are you using and which input method (keyboard
layout)?

2) To be clear, aela-pilla and kombuva do not require the use of ZWJ.

cya,
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On 06/02/17 09:15, Nayana Hettiarachchi wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> in all seriousness what's the likelihood and and required force to
> create a new Unicode Page range for Sinhala-(Improved)
>
> core problem -> incorrect use of zero-width-joiner in the current
> implementation i.e. ා ෙ these two does not require a zero-width joiner i
> mean take examples of code pages that has much more usage such as thai เ
> า ะ are exactly the same thing. but no zero-width-joiner makes it so
> easy to type and does not lead to issues such as shown below
>

> *DESIGN LEADING TO IMPLEMENTATION PROBLEMS SPECIFIC TO NOTO-SANS AND CHROME*
>
>
>
> *SAFARI SOME HOW WORKS THROUUGH THAT*​

>
>
> ​
> also other minor issues such as that
>
> අ ආ අ ා (are 3 different values) so ආ is not really අ + ා its not its
> own value.
>
> maybe we can make the scope a bit bigger by taking all the derived
> languages into consideration which potentially can allow mapping into
> word origins and meanings with from with in the encoding
>
>
> Thoughts????
>

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