Rick> Pre-coded subjoined things may make sense for Khmer, but I don't
Rick> know enough about the script or the group of languages written with
Rick> it to hazard an opinion about that. In general, all of the
Rick> Brahmic-derived scripts can be successfully encoded without
Rick> pre-coded subjunctions; the tastefulness and practicality of such an
Rick> encoding depends on the evolution and usage of the particular script
Rick> in its milieu.
Just a note "from the implementation field" with regard to Khmer: I have found
that supporting Khmer in the same fashion as the Indic scripts has worked out
pretty well. Having subjoined elements encoded separately (the way I did it
originally for Kannada, Khmer, and Telegu; using the PUA, of course)
complicated the technical aspects quite a bit. Some linguists using our stuff
have mentioned that for Brahmic-derived scripts, they prefer the "canonical"
form in the backing store for processing purposes.
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