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Yes, the vowel diacritics are definitely an issue. I'm familiar with Hindi and Tamil. Hindi's _matras_ are pretty regular, and Unifont is designed so you can ju
by akkartik 5y ago
Yes, the vowel diacritics are definitely an issue. I'm familiar with Hindi and Tamil. Hindi's _matras_ are pretty regular, and Unifont is designed so you can just type a single diacritic in the same spot as a consonant and have the thing look right (albeit terrible).
Tamil, however, doesn't have this property. Does Myanmar?
At the moment a single diacritic is the extent of my ambition.
- yorwba 5y agoThere are vowel signs that attach to the left, right, top, bottom or wrap around the preceding consonant. You could maybe emulate it by manually placing characters into a grid, but that would be very much not Unicode. Anyways, if you could get Tamil to work with a generic approach, I guess most of the edge cases for Myanmar would be covered by that as well. (Edit: seems like Tamil only has at most one diacritic, so it would have to be more general for Myanmar still.)
- akkartik 5y agoYeah, that does sound like Tamil. Ligatures become necessary even for combining just 2 code points.