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To begin, the error identified in the previous document is corrected in the LGR 6 in terms of the Bengali ঔ (U+0994) being tagged as a consonant is rectified and marked as a vowel. This change of identification from consonant to vowel is accepted in the case of ঔ . The character ঔ (AU) is undoubtedly a vowel in the Bengali (Bangla) orthography.
Secondly, The Bengali chandrabindi (U+0981) and the Devanagari chandrabindu (U+0901) being homoglyphs could be conveniently taken as variants and added.
Lastly, the issue of hasanta (halanta) in both the Bengali (U+09CD) and the Devanagari (U+094D) scripts cannot be randomly thought of as uniformly behaving as variants in all the positions/ contexts. It is irrelevant in cases of occurence between two consonants, where it forms a conjunct or a cluster. The case is neither considered for instances involving explicit hasantas (where we use ZWNJ). However, the hasanta (halanta) (U+09CD vs. (U+094D)) in the final positions, where the the shape is intact, could be considered as variants. For example [praak; vaac], প্রাক্ vs. प्राक् ; বাচ্ vs. वाच् .