On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 Kazunari Hirano wrote : [...] >When you say Thai is CTL, how is Thai text layout complex? >I don't see exactly what CTL means, what is complex. >Thai, Oriya, Urdu, Arabic, Hebrew and so on are called CTL languages. >Why are they called CTL? What are they complex about?
Because their layout is complicated :-) Oriya involves a lot of reordering of input characters, as well as substitution of glyphs for sequences of input characters, and I believe Thai is also similar. Urdu, and Arabic letters can change shapes depending on their position in the word. Regards, Gora
