If this does not work for conjuncts other than SHA/TA + RA, this means the ligature has not been included in the font. The document processor uses the table to detect the combinations and access the composite character. Ligatures are advertised through a table in the font file. Ligatures are not handled manually by the author but automatically substituted when met. In other scripts, this would be named a ligature.

The form taken by the combination seems to be qualified as a “conjunct”. The examples shown look like U+0C24 TELEGU LETTER TA and U+0C36 TELEGU LETTER SHA both with subscripted crescent. The character you reference in your question, U+0C30 TELEGU LETTER RA, is a consonant and, ipso facto, has no combining property. In the chart (U+0C00 to U+0C7F), vowels have names like TELEGU VOWEL SIGN xx and the code points have property “combining character”.

I have no practical knowledge of Telugu but I had a look at the related Unicode section, both on my computer and on the site.įrom what I understand from the writing system, consonants are primary units and vowels modify the shape of consonants as “diacritics”.

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