On 23/1/14 15:41, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote:
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 9:41 PM, Jonathan Kew <[email protected]> wrote:
On 21/1/14 03:56, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote:
I'm trying to typeset Patani Malay text using Thai script as guided by
the Royal Institute, and I have some problems with Phinthu-
modified consonants with below-base vowel combined.
See the sample text captured from the book here:
http://linux.thai.net/~thep/shots/20140121-patani-sample-marked.jpg
Interesting. Are there any cases (in Thai or other languages) where the
Phinthu *is* written below the Sara-U or Sara-UU vowel?
AFAIK, no. But my knowledge is limited in this area.
The comment in hb-unicode-private.hh suggests that Uniscribe behaves the
same as (current) harfbuzz here. There appear to be only two examples of
this in our thai-wikipedia word list, but I just checked, and Uniscribe does
indeed render the Phinthu dot *below* the vowel in both cases:
<U+0E1B,U+0E3A,U+0E38,U+0E04,U+0E04,U+0E42,U+0E25>
This is a misspelt Pali word. Correction:
<U+0E1B,U+0E38,U+0E04,U+0E3A,U+0E04,U+0E42,U+0E25>
<U+0E28,U+0E23,U+0E32,U+0E27,U+0E3A,U+0E38,U+0E12,U+0E34>
This is also a Sanskrit typo. U+0E3A should be removed to correct it.
OK, thanks - I wondered whether these might be errors, given how rare
the combination seemed to be.
It's not clear to me, then, why uniscribe treats this in the way it
does. (Perhaps there was no good reason, and it was merely an arbitrary
choice of ordering in the absence of any clear requirement?)
JK
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