Re: Display of Lao script

[Kaushal Modi]

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 7:14 PM Stephen Berman <address@hidden> wrote:

 (Regardless if what's correct, my
aesthetic impression is that the first display, without m17n and libotf,
looks better; 

I believe you are correct. I don't know Lao, but knowing Hindi and Gujarati, those Lao characters seem similar to the vowel overlays used in Hindi, Gujarati and other Indic languages.

Example: ક + ં should be rendered combined as કં, ક + ી = કી, and so on.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gujarati_alphabet#Vowels 

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Kaushal Modi