On Sat, 23 Feb 2019 14:46:27 +0800 梁海 Liang Hai via Unicode <[email protected]> wrote:
> USE wasn’t designed to allow such a syllable structure. Tai Tham’s > being supported by USE is kind of an oversight. And although it’s > appropriate to allow conjoined consonants to follow post-base-spacing > vowel signs, There's a quick hack there. As U+1A63 TAI THAM VOWEL SIGN AA and 1A64 U+TAI THAM VOWEL SIGN TALL AA start grapheme clusters, just promote them to BASE. It also solves the problem of tone mark placement. It does postpone the handling of the <NA, SIGN AA> ligature to after the dissolution of syllable boundaries, which could force unwelcome changes in a Pali-only Tai Tham font, if such exist. At least one font has an extensive set of ligatures for the sequences <NA, SAKOT, x, SIGN AA>. I have to handle the ligature after the dissolution because of the syllable boundary in <NA, tone, SIGN AA>. A quick hack for the likes of Tai Lü ᨻᩭ᩠ᩅ᩻ᩣ <U+1A3B, U+1A6D, U+1A60, U+1A45, U+1A7B, U+1A63> /pɔi vaː/ ‘because’ may be more troublesome even if one omits U+1A7B TAI THAM SIGN MAI SAM. You probably won't like it anyway, because a good rendering looks more like the nonsense words /pvɔi paː/ or /pvɔi pvaː/. (I think the cluster /pv/ does not exist in any form in Tai Lü, and that would rule it out.) Richard.
