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From: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Display of Lao script
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 13:11:35 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFyQvY2DCLqWy8B01+VbZDLUSUGp6QXtfu=tZB=zm5z+mBrU8A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874lqyvg78.fsf@gmx.net>

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On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 7:14 PM Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
wrote:

>  (Regardless if what's correct, my
> aesthetic impression is that the first display, without m17n and libotf,
> looks better;
>

I believe you are correct. I don't know Lao, but knowing Hindi and
Gujarati, those Lao characters seem similar to the vowel overlays used in
Hindi, Gujarati and other Indic languages.

Example: ક + ં should be rendered combined as કં, ક + ી = કી, and so on.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gujarati_alphabet#Vowels
-- 

Kaushal Modi

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-10-20 13:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-16 23:14 Display of Lao script Stephen Berman
2017-10-17 16:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-20 11:48   ` Stephen Berman
2017-10-22  3:37     ` handa
2017-10-22 11:13       ` Stephen Berman
2017-10-24  9:14         ` handa
2017-10-24 10:01           ` Stephen Berman
2017-10-24 12:04             ` handa
2017-10-24 12:29               ` Stephen Berman
2017-10-24 22:48                 ` handa
2017-11-05  5:26                   ` handa
2017-11-05 12:28                     ` Stephen Berman
2017-11-06 15:26                       ` handa
2017-11-06 16:11                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-07 11:56                           ` handa
2017-10-20 13:11 ` Kaushal Modi [this message]

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