ORNL and Sri Lankan Tamil

["Dr.K. Kalyanasundaram" <kalyan@igcsun3.epfl.ch>]

Dr. Nandasara (Inst. of Computer Technology, Univ. of Colombo)
paper presented at TamilNet'97 Conference
(http://www.irdu.nus.sg/tamilweb/tamilnet97/paper/html/nandasara/nandasara.htm)
goes at length about Sri Lankan experience of Developing tamil input/
display methods.

Regarding the objectable glyphs being debated, they do have the
following glyphs (taken Table 7 of his paper)in their tamil glyph set:
    grantha letters: sri, s, ksh, h, sa, ksha, ha, ja, jii, kshii, sii,
..
   ORNL:  old style Raa, Naa, naa
  
The paper talks about availability of ligatures to get the old style
Raa, Naa, Na,
and also old style lai, Nai, Lai and nai !!!

Kalyan