Ben Mitchell
ohbendy@typo.social
<p>I research and make fonts for Southeast Asian scripts! 🇪🇺 🏳️🌈 He/him</p><p><a href="http://fontpad.co.uk" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="">fontpad.co.uk</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
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I see Saek language (ภาษาแสก) has seven tones, which means we need two more tonemarks than Thai Unicode currently provides. ไม้แถรก is a horizontal line and ไม้ซับ is an upward chevron; both sit above the consonant or, like other tonemarks, move upstairs if there&#39;s a vowel sitting on the consonant. The question is: do we use macroncomb u+0304 and circumflexcomb u+0302 (this approach works fine in the fonts I&#39;ve tested), OR do we propose these to be encoded as new characters in the...