Whatever Emacs or other implementations use, I'd consider 00D7 a better choice than 0078 for a generic base placeholder on which to display non-Latin (or any) combining marks.
Peter -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Wordingham Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 1:00 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Mark-Driven Script Categorisation On Thu, 17 May 2012 20:41:19 +0200 Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> wrote: > Is it really the Latin letter x in question there, if it's use is to > be a visible placeholder to hold diacritic vowel marks ? The Latin > letter has the problem of is dual case (not found in the Lao script, > and a too large variation across many font styles, when the > multiplication sign × would probably fit better for its use as a > placeholder. You're the only other person I've met who thinks that it is U+00D7 MULTIPLICATION SIGN, but the evidence is against us. Emacs, Ununtu and Windows all reckon that the Lao keyboard has 'x'. Richard.
