From: Lokesh Joshi (lokeshjoshi@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Feb 15 2007 - 13:24:12 CST
Guys,
this is what i wanted to ask and verify earlier also:
#5589: Thai layout broken for <0E25, 0E37, 0E4C>?
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Reporter: markus | Owner: eric
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: UNSCH
Component: layout | Version:
Resolution: | Keywords:
Xref: | Java:
Os: | Project: ICU4C
Weeks: | Revw:
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Comment (by eric):
According to http://www.nectec.or.th/it-standards/keyboard_layout/thai-
key.htm and http://www.inet.co.th/cyberclub/trin/thairef/wtt2/char-
class.pdf
, the ICU implementation is correct. They say that U+0E37 has
class AV3 and that U+0E4C has class AD1, and that AV1 does not compose
with AV3.
I think this makes sense, i also coded according to the char-class.pdf.
Thanx
Lokesh
On 2/11/07, vunzndi@vfemail.net <vunzndi@vfemail.net> wrote:
>
>
> My apologies
> below for" Quite the reverse is true" -- read "Quite the reverse is also
> true"
>
>
> Quoting vunzndi@vfemail.net:
>
> >
> > Yes, inpratice one canuse the script of any language to write another
> > language it is just a question of how big an adaption. Quite the
> > reverse is true a writing system is designed not to use certain
> > letters/ideogrammes so as to be different but at the same time is
> > related in some way. Having one's own writing system is often seen as
> > a matter of pride for many nations/ethnic-groups. I can think of few
> > cases where the primary reason for choosing a writing system was
> > praticality.
> >
> > Quoting Peter Constable <petercon@microsoft.com>:
> >
> >> Actually, I think actual adaptation of a script for use in other
> >> languages has less to do with its adaptability and more to do with
> >> things like prestige or regional importance by virtue of its use
> >> for some major language(s). E.g. Arabic script wasn't adopted for
> >> writing Turkish because the script was particularly adaptable for
> >> that language.
> >>
> >> Peter
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org
> >> [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of John Hudson
> >> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 10:06 AM
> >> To: Eric Muller
> >> Cc: Lokesh Joshi; Richard Wordingham; unicode@unicode.org
> >> Subject: Re: Query for Validity of Thai Sequence
> >>
> >> Eric Muller wrote:
> >>
> >>>> Successful writing systems tend to get adapted for multiple
> languages,
> >>
> >>> The term "successful writing systems" makes me nervous, especially
> with
> >>> the "tend to get adapted" part. Unless you define "successful" by "get
> >>> adapted" (in which case you have a tautology), the value judgment is
> at
> >>> best dubious. And anyway, your argument works equally well without
> >>> "Successful", so why go there?
> >>
> >> That's an entirely fair comment. I was writing quickly, but I
> >> suppose I was thinking of
> >> 'successful' in terms of demonstrated adaptability. Thinking of a
> >> script like Thai: this
> >> is a writing system that has already been adapted to a number of
> >> minority languages, ergo
> >> 'successful' in this sense, and it is reasonable to think that it
> >> might be adapted to
> >> others. In any case, the basic point is that one shouldn't make
> >> assumptions about how
> >> characters will be used in such adaptations.
> >>
> >> JH
> >>
> >> --
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> >>
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> >> sex, love, nature and Japanese ceramics. Frankly, there are
> >> worse principles of government than that. - Karen Burshtein
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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