> Others, like MYANMAR LETTER KHA u+1001 clearly need only one character cell. Other > letters like MYANMAR LETTER II u+1024 ought to use up *THREE > CONSOLE CHARACTER CELLS* and MYANMAR LETTER AU u+102A should have > *FOUR CONSOLE CHARACTER CELLS*.
I have studied the burmese script a few years ago. I dont know anything about using burmese script on computers, but I would not consider the u102A as one character if I was supposed to write it with a pencil. I cant imagine a burmese keyboard having one key for this letter... but maybe I am wrong. Probably it is written by pressing several keys. As you can see, letter u102A (which looks like it has a four times as long width) can be attained by combining the letters u1031, u1029, u102c and u1039. These are all letters and/or "accents" in their own sense. I dont know why the unicode standard includes the letter u1029 as a standalong char. But maybe they know better than me. I think it could be very possible to implement the burmese script in an uggly way, by squeezing every character into a cell with double width. I mean for ASCII we dont have half-width cells for characters like "i", "," or "!" etc. even though their width is less than half of normal characters like "F", "K" etc. It looks uggly to have all letters in the same width, but it works for us who are used to it. Some people have even started to get used, looking at characters in that width!, and the letter "i" has started to become "wider" in computer monotype fonts. So, I suggest that until multiple width cells are supported well for linux, one could do an implementation of burmese expanding or shrinking all the letters to the same width. Martin -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
