On Thu, 2 May 2013 23:04:50 +0700 Theppitak Karoonboonyanan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Richard Wordingham > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wed, 1 May 2013 15:50:54 +0700 >> Theppitak Karoonboonyanan <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Richard Wordingham >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > (i) ᩁᩘᩈᩦ <RA, MAI KANG LAI, SA, SIGN II> 'ray of light' >>> > (ii) ᩈᩘᨠᩕᩣᨶ᩠ᨲᩴ <HIGH SA, MAI KANG LAI, HIGH KA, MEDIAL RA, AA, >>> > NA, SAKOT, HIGH TA, RA HAAM> 'songkran' >>> So, the question is for Lanna. Do such spellings exist, and how are >>> they handled? If they exist, yes, the rendering engine 'must' >>> handle it. >> The problem with handling the differences when reordering is that >> Lao Tham reorders <MAI KANG LAI, HIGH KA, MEDIAL RA>, but the MFL >> style does not. This gives us at least three different reordering >> behaviours. > Three? Shift, no shift, and what else? Shift unless. The conditions for no shift in the MFL are either of: 1) MEDIAL RA on the second consonant 2) Mark above on the second consonant (at least, SIGN I and SIGN II will inhibit) It's not impossible that this behaviour arises from the limitations of the font used for the dictionary. Richard. _______________________________________________ HarfBuzz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz
