Re: Tibetan/Burmese/Khmer

From: Michael Everson (everson@indigo.ie)
Date: Fri Jan 17 1997 - 12:44:54 EST


At 16:18 -0800 1997-01-16, Lee Collins wrote:
>>
>>Is the implication that Unicode/ISCII-type encoding will suit Burmese?
>
>I certainly think so. The only issue is whether vowels should be stored
>in phonetic order as in Devanagari or in visual order as in Thai.

Phonetic, please. Please!

>Unfortunately, the WorldScript Tibetan doesn't take advantage of some
>changes that were later introduced for the Indian Language Kit.

Has that been released, Lee?

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