Cham proposal

From: Javier SOLA (lists@khmeros.info)
Date: Sun Dec 30 2007 - 21:07:19 CST

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    Michael,

    Is this proposal for both Cambodian and Vietnamese Cham? Are the
    differences only a matter of font style?

    Javier

    James Kass wrote
    >
    > Cham sample electronic texts
    >
    > Are there any?
    >
    > I've tried to enter Unicode Cham based on exhibits in the proposal
    > N3120.PDF, but I'm a bit confused. Any pointers or links would
    > be appreciated. My main Cham confusion right now relates to
    > the difference between:
    > AA2E ◌ꨮ CHAM VOWEL SIGN OE
    > and
    > AA43 ◌ꩃ CHAM CONSONANT SIGN FINAL NG
    > ... and how both of these marks stack with relation to other marks
    > (and each other).
    >
    > N3120 from Figure 4
    > http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3120.pdf
    > (entered in visual order, as reordering isn't yet supported...)
    > -.ꨦꨄ ꨤꨪꨝꨭꩍ ꨀꨕꨬ ꨥꨮꩍ
    > ꨟꨢꩍ ꨟꨬ ꨤꨪꨗꨮꨲ ꨴꨈꨭꩀ ꨔꨮ
    > ꨟ ꨴꨈꨩꨭ ꨔꨮꨱ ꨂꨣꨮ ꨰꨨ ꨎꨪꩍꨕꨤꩍ
    > (Graphic attached shows the section from the PDF along with
    > the display of the above text on my system.)
    >
    > The first obvious question is -- which dash-dot Unicode sequence
    > should be used to electronically represent the dash-dot at the
    > beginning of this short bit of Cham text?
    >
    > The second obvious question is -- which of those glyphs should
    > be U+AA2E and which should be U+AA43?
    >
    > The third obvious question is -- when will font engines support
    > complex script handling for Cham?
    >
    > The Omniglot Cham exhibit
    > http://www.omniglot.com/writing/cham.htm
    > shows a word transliterated as "pajưng" in the first line. Am
    > I correct in guessing that the long, uprising line is the vowel
    > mark and that the shorter line which looks a bit like a breve
    > is the final consonant glyph? And, what is the preferred
    > encoding order for that sequence?
    >
    > Should it be ...
    > AA1A ꨚ CHAM LETTER PA
    > AA0E ꨎ CHAM LETTER JA
    > AA33 ◌ꨳ CHAM CONSONANT SIGN YA
    > AA2E ◌ꨮ CHAM VOWEL SIGN OE
    > AA43 ◌ꩃ CHAM CONSONANT SIGN FINAL NG
    >
    > ꨚꨎꨳꨮꩃ ... ?
    >
    > Best regards,
    >
    > James Kass
    >
    >



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