From: Philippe Verdy (verdy_p@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Wed Jul 11 2007 - 11:11:30 CDT
Your opinion just confirms what I feared : it’s just notational and there’s
no consensus about the base symbol to use : we have now at least 4 base
characters:
* The dotted circle symbol (as in Unicode charts)
* An x-like cross symbol ; but I won’t like the proposal of reusing
the Latin x letter due to its metrics, graphical features and styles ;
* A dash-like symbol (possibly an underscore-like symbol too), however
reusing the dash may cause line breaking and word breaking issues ;
* NBSP (and possibly SPACE, but with line breaking issues, especially
in plain-text Emails)
Philippe.
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Brian Wilson [mailto:bountonw@gmail.com] wrote :
Envoyé : mercredi 11 juillet 2007 18:02
À : verdy_p@wanadoo.fr
Cc : James Kass; unicode@unicode.org; Anousak Souphavanh
Objet : Re: Phetsarat font, Lao unicode
I have just been to Laos last week and purchased the two latest
dictionaries. I also have seen elementary school primers. These all list
the consonants and vowels separately as Thai. In Thai, the convention is to
use a hyphen type symbol as the base character. In Lao, it is to use an x
type symbol.
I do not see the point in opening up the possibilities for expanding an
infinite number of base character possibilities. As Thai and Lao are close
cousins, I would go for over kill and allow vowels in both languages to
attach to either an "-" or an "x" base character.
Brian
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