From: Richard Wordingham (richard.wordingham@ntlworld.com)
Date: Thu Feb 08 2007 - 20:14:23 CST
Lokesh Joshi wrote on Thursday, February 08, 2007 4:45 AM
Subject: Query for Validity of Thai Sequence
> If possible can anyone pls confirm that the thai unicode sequence:
>
> U+0E25 (THAI CHARACTER LO LING) U+0E37 (THAI CHARACTER SARA UEE)
> U+0E4C(THAI CHARACTER THANTHAKHAT)
>
> is a valid sequence, as far i have been knowing thai this seems to be an
> invalid sequence, only in above vowels, SARA I (U+0E34) is valid before
> THANTHAKHAT.
Well, I think it's banned by WTT (wing thuk thi 'runs everywhere') 2.0, but
that wasn't officially endorsed by even the Thai government, let alone
Unicode.
> If possible can anyone point me to some valid document for this.
Thanthakhat functions as a 'tone mark' ('register mark' would be a more
accurate description, but the Chong headings use the Thai word /wannayuk/ in
an indigenised spelling) in the recently developed Thai-script Chong
orthography. I can't find the precise combination in the scant materials on
the web, but if you look at the Chong vowel and tone chart on p21 (tones
only on p22) of
http://www.unescobkk.org/fileadmin/user_upload/aims/Pattaya_SCB_Jun05/Chong_Language_-_Part_1.pdf ,
it's hard to see any reason why the combination should not occur. There's
a fuller description of the language available via
http://www.thapra.lib.su.ac.th/objects/thesis/fulltext/thapra/Sirikan_Chareontham/Content.pdf -
I've only glanced through it. This description does not seem to use any
orthography for Chong, merely transcription.
Does Vista allow the combination?
Richard.
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