malayalam-ttta-nnna

Correct glyphs for Malayalam letters, ttta and nnna
(from A. R. Rajaraja Varma, Kerala Paniniyam):




This note is about Malayalam letter alveolar t (U+0D3A). A. R. Rajarajavarma placed the Grantha letter TTA for Malayalam letter TTTA as can be seen from:
http://www.unicode.org/alloc/Pipeline.html



I notice that the glyph shape for Malayalam Letter TTTA is wrong in document N3494
http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3494.pdf

This error in N3494 is due to Thomas Pedersen's PDF showing wrong glyph for Malayalam letter TTTA in page 2 of
http://transliteration.eki.ee/pdf/Malayalam.pdf
In the U+0D3A spot, Tamil letter TTI (டி) is given as the glyph which is NOT correct.

The correct shape of TTTA at U+0D3A is given in Rajaraja Varma, A. R. 1917. Keralapanineeyam. Reprinted 2003. Kottayam: DC Books.

Please use this correct shape for U+0D3A, as can be checked in the paragraph in the book by A. R. Rajarajavarma, on page 2 of N3494.

Malayalam NNNA and TTTA in Unicode code chart is years away. Please correct the glyph of TTTA (U+0D3A) to what is shown here.

Thanks,
N. Ganesan