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Tibetan overrides induce a dotted circle in ⟨ཧྲཱིཿ࿆⟩
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Description
IndicSyllabicCategory-Additional.txt overrides U+0F7F TIBETAN SIGN RNAM BCAD to Consonant_Dead and U+0FC6 TIBETAN SYMBOL PADMA GDAN to Consonant_Final. That means that ⟨ཧྲཱིཿ࿆⟩ gets a dotted circle. Why are these overrides necessary?
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Start by inspecting IndicSyllabicCategory-Additional.txt and the overrides for U+0F7F and U+0FC6. Compare their classifications with the behavior of ⟨ཧྲཱིཿ࿆⟩, then establish whether the overrides are necessary and document the resulting decision about the dotted circle.
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