On Tuesday 01 April 2003 08:17 am, Edward H Trager wrote: > On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Pablo Saratxaga wrote: > > Kaixo! > > > > On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 08:49:43PM -0800, Edward Cherlin wrote: [somebody wrote] > > > > Thai does need line wrapping to occur > > > > at word boundaries, contrary to Japanese or Chinese. I > > > > wonder even if it wouldn't be a good idea to introduce > > > > the idea of using zero width space between words when > > > > typing in Thai...) > > > [EC] > > > Better to have a function to add them, like the > > > semi-automated hyphenation functions in various word > > > processing and publishing programs. > > > > Well, it doesn't matter how it is typed; I mean, the idea of > > using zero width delimiters, has that idea some chances to > > get widely used? > > > > I think it has a lot of advantages for text manipulation. > > And it makes sense, as it reflects a real existinhg boundary > > between words. > > Nobody is going to want to type text with zero width > delimiters in it, and I don't think text or HTML editors > should be adding ZW delimiters automatically either. There > are too many different text and HTML editors out in the world > that people might want to use for creating documents in Thai > or other scripts that don't break words (Lao is an obvious > second example). There's no way that all such tools will come > to support automatic adding of ZW word delimiters. > > So the only answer is that the web browsers and document > processing programs of the world have the functionality to > break words for Thai, Lao, etc. built into them.
No, not the individual apps. If we need that function, it has to go into the renderer. > Dictionary-based lookup for Thai and Lao should be reasonably > trivial since these languages have simple grammatical > structure. Simple, but not trivial. Where do the dictionaries come from? Free dictionary files are notoriously unreliable. > Does anyone know if the major browsers (IE,Mozilla,Opera) take > this approach for Thai? -- Edward Cherlin Generalist & activist--Linux, languages, literacy and more "A knot! Oh, do let me help to undo it!" --Alice in Wonderland -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
