Sanskrit entry

[richmond62]

Whether this constitutes a bug or not, I just don't know, but it is a potential show-stopper if you
are interested in using Livecode for Sanskrit text entry (which I am).

There are currently 2 methods of entering Sanskrit text using the dominant wiring system; the Devanagari abugida:

1. Full entry: this involves using a "lexicon' of up to 5,000 characters.

2. Halant entry: this involves using about 50 characters and about 50 half-characters, called halants.

Currently my problem is with the latter because the Unicode consortium does NOT provide halants in its system, but
it does, apparently, provide a way to get those half-characters, although how exactly this works "under the hood" is a mystery:

trying this in Livecode 7.1 results in this:

which is quite unacceptable.

Performing the same sort of exercise in Livecode 4.5 (using slightly different code [ set unicodeText to numToChar . . . . ]
does no better:

[richmond62]

While Sanskrit text entry is not a major concern in the Livecode Universe, it may bear on Unicode text entry
in general.

[richmond62]

http://unicode.org/faq/indic.html