Hi, Andrew and Behdad, Prompted by a conversation I had with Liang Hai yesterday, I am just curious to get some idea about the following:
(1) When can we anticipate that the USE spec will be updated to provide support for subjoined consonants below vowels (as required for TAI THAM) ? (2) Once the USE spec is updated, how much lag time can we expect until Microsoft actually releases an implementation with said support for CV+C ? (3a) And the related question —for Behdad and the HarfBuzz development group— is when can we expect to see CV+C support (at least for TAI THAM) in HarfBuzz ? (3b) Would the HarfBuzz team consider providing CV+C support for TAI THAM even before the USE spec gets updated, so that we could test things out ? * ** --------------------------------------- * PLEASE AND THANKYOU? ** A good use case is the Tai Tham word U+1A27 U+1A6A U+1A60 U+1A37 , transcribed to Central Thai script as จูบ, (*to kiss*). Currently, people are writing this as U+1A27 U+1A60 U+1A37 U+1A6A ("จบู") which violates the "phonetic ordering" but is the current workaround because USE is still broken for TAI THAM. REFERENCE DOCUMENT: http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2018/18332-tai-tham-ad-hoc-report.pdf