Combining characters in Noto Sans Brahmi

[dscorbett]

According to The Unicode Standard, ch. 14, “in Tamil Brahmi text, the virama is used not only after consonants, but also after the vowels e (U+1100F, U+11042) and o (U+11011, U+11044)”. However, the virama in ⟨𑀏𑁆⟩ and ⟨𑀑𑁆⟩ is incorrectly placed to the right of the vowel letter instead of above it. Note that in Tamil Brahmi the virama looks like a dot, so rendering this correctly calls for the locl feature for Old Tamil. (This is no longer true as of Unicode 14.0.)

Also, “Brahmi decimal digits are categorized as regular bases and can act as vowel carriers”, but the vowel sign in e.g. ⟨𑁩𑁅⟩ is too far to the right.

[JelleBosmaMT]

I am afraid, I had no involvement with the design of Noto Sans Brahmi and
do not know enough about Brahmi to be of any help regarding this issue.

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[simoncozens]

I've made my best guess at where these anchors should go onto numerals. This is not based on any manuscript evidence but just on the general pattern of the anchors on the letters; at least it will be not worse than the current situation.