Re: Tibetan/Burmese/Khmer

From: Michael Everson (everson@indigo.ie)
Date: Mon Jan 20 1997 - 09:02:24 EST


At 09:56 -0500 1997-01-20, Maurice J Bauhahn wrote:

>Sorting in Khmer is largely based on syllables at least for the first four
>levels (base consonant, first subscript, second subscript, vowel).
>(1) First the base consonant by itself,
>(2) Then the base consonant plus a sign (a rather rare occurrence in the
>past, but with new rules about yukaleapintu and anusvara this will be
>more prevalent)
>(3) Then the base consonant plus a second base consonant,
>(4) Then a base consonant plus the above mentioned second base consonant
>and a sign (the fifth level). Normally, however the sign is on the second
>consonant (with the two syllable word carrying it coming after an
>identical word without the sign). In this regard the sign level seems to
>be different from the other levels (even though it affects the
>pronunciation of the vowel on the first base consonant of the first
>syllable)
>(5) This can go rippling off to the right with vowels, subscripts and
>signs on the second or n-th consonants in one word
>(6) Then the base consonant plus a different base consonant (cycling
>through all possible second consonants),
>(7) Then the base consonant plus a vowel
>(8) Then the base consonant plus a first subscript
>(9) Then the base consonant plus the first subscript plus a second
>subscript.
>(10) Then the base consonant plus the first subscript plus the second
>subscript plus a vowel....

This makes sense to me. I think the way we are specifying sorting in
SC22/WG20 can handle this.

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