discussion of line height in Lao and Thai in Lao and Thai, the amount of vertical space required depends on how high and how low vowels and tone marks are stacked on the consonant.
one can either select the max above and max below the consonant to determine a fixed line height, or one could analyze the line and set line height according to need. the first approach is simpler, but usually results in a lot of wasted space. consonants with both a vowel and tone mark above probably occur in about 30% of the lines in a typical newspaper, for example. below there are three occurrences: a character is a descender, eg, ຽ, a vowel below, eg, ດູ, and the weird ຫຼ. (ຫຼ with ອູ vowel beneath is theoretically possible but I can find no occurrences in the dictionary.) descenders occurr in about 30% of the lines in a newspaper. letting descenders and stacked tone marks share the same space is possible if one horizontally adjusted the two lines to prevent collision. (fixed width font makes no sense in Lao or Thai.) this would allow a fixed line height that not too obscene, but kerning between lines is pretty weird. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gedit in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1299999 Title: Lao characters not rendering To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit/+bug/1299999/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
