From: Mijan (mijan@bangladesh.net)
Date: Wed Mar 05 2003 - 11:12:59 EST
Quoting Marco Cimarosti <marco.cimarosti@essetre.it>:
> Mijan wrote:
> > [...]
> > > >3. There are no other cases of a Vowel+Virama combination in the
> > > >Unicode encoding model.
> > >
> > > Yes, there are. Khmer.
> >
> > I do not understand Khmer but I see that it does not use the
> > same 'encoding model'. Please look, you will see that you
> > were wrong to use Khmer as an example.
>
> What do you mean by not using the same "encoding model"?
>
> There are actually three Indic scripts that have been encoded with a
> different model: Tibetan (subscript letters are encoded separately, rather
> than as combinations of virama + consonant), and Thai/Lao (reordrant vowel
> marks are encoded in visual order, rather than in phonetic order).
>
> But, AFAIK, this is not the case of Unicode Khmer, which is encoded in the
> same way as the scripts of India.
Thank you for the correction. I said I do not understand Khmer. I was
understanding that scripts not based on ISCII were using different "encoding
model"
Mijan
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