Devanagari Details

    Table ID:
    deva
    Table Type:
    Script
    Version:
    1.0
    Date Introduced:
    2018-01-22

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    Policy Statement:
    This table was derived from the following sources:
    
    IDN Character Table for deva: https://github.com/dotse/IDN-ref-tables/blob/master/script-tables/devanagari-script-ref-table.txt
    
    References for contextual rules
    
    RFC 5891: "Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA): Protocol" 
    (proposed standard), http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5891
    
    Unicode Technical Standard 46 (UTS-46),
    http://unicode.org/reports/tr46/
    
    Code points requiring contextual rules
    
    Code points: U+002D (HYPHEN-MINUS)
    Reference: RFC 5891 (sec 4.2.3.1)
    Rules: Label must neither start nor end with U+002D. Label must not have U+002D in both third and fourth position. 
    
    Code points: U+0900..U+0903, U+093C, U+094D..U+094E, U+0953..U+0954 (DEVANAGARI SIGNS)
    Reference: UTS46 (sec 4.1)
    Rules: Combining characters cannot start a label.
    
    Code points: U+093E..U+094C (DEVANAGARI DEPENDENT VOWEL SIGNS)
    Reference: UTS46 (sec 4.1)
    Rules: Dependent vowels, must be placed after their associated consonant and thus cannot start a label.
    
    Code points: U+0955, U+0962, U+0963 (DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGNS)
    Reference: UTS46 (sec 4.1)
    Rules: Combining code point cannot start a label.
    
    Code points: U+A8E0..U+A8F1 (COMBINING MARKS)
    Reference: UTS46 (sec 4.1)
    Rules: Combining code point cannot start a label.
    
    This table conforms to the format specified in RFC 3743.
    

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    deva_1.0 (txt)
     

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