On 06/06/2002 12:45:15 AM "Maurice Bauhahn" wrote:
>In Khmer one of the problems visual order brings up for computer >implementations is the large variety of character orders this could involve. >There are two-glyph vowels with pre and post consonant placement, one-glyph >vowels which preceed, and one-glyph vowels which follow (super or sub or >post). Failure to lock those into a standard order would result in quite a >bit of preprocessing for sorting, not to mention the problems of >searchin/spell checking. It seems to me that this is a non-issue in relation to searching and spell checking since both of those processes are sensitive only to sequences of encoded characters and do no need to know what any given character is used to represent (unless you're doing something akin to sound-based searching). As for sorting, the preprocessing is not necessarily a big deal -- at least, Thai and Lao have visually-ordered encoding that requires a bit of reordering before creating sort keys (or as part of the process of creating sort keys), but the preprocessing is pretty trivial: Vp C > C Vp. - Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Constable Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA Tel: +1 972 708 7485 E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
