Kenneth Whistler wrote: > The "Indic model" is largely based on an abstraction of > the phonology of the language the script is used to write.... > The "Thai model" is a typewriter-derived variant of the > Indic model that rules out reordrant or surroundrant characters, > because of the limitations of typewriter technology....
Just a curiosity, I'm a Thai and used to the Thai model so I'm wondering how other brahmi-derived scripts are 1) typed on typewriter 2) typed on computer keyboard 3) hand-written That is, are they all using the same (logical) order? -- Feel free to disclose the contents of this message. Samphan Raruenrom Information Research and Development Division, National Electronics and Computer Technology Center, Thailand. http://www.nectec.or.th/home/index.html
