"The Unicode model departs from the ordinary way that Khmer is conceived of and taught to
native Khmer speakers. Consequently, the encoding may not be intuitive to a native user of
the Khmer writing system, although it is able to represent Khmer correctly."
Hooray for #standards, amirite?
@n8 holy shit.
Hey, would you know of an article or something with good gripes against Han unification? Been curious about that for some time.
@federicomena Certainly not off the top of my head. It's pretty far outside my language sphere. Are there a significant number of people who object to the idea? Or to the implementation?
@federicomena FTR, you do find people griping about Indic encoding schemes a lot, but usually it's self-proclaimed experts who choose not to participate in the country's national standards process, so there's a grain-of-salt factor. Encoding scripts that reorder strings and utilize multiple forms per letter is genuinely tough; the Khmer comment may've been more 'cautionary to the new-to-Unicode crowd' than 'admitting it sucks'. Little unclear from outside.
@n8 no idea. I keep seeing comments on how bad it is, so I'd like to know the story.
(and yes, that is a quote from the Khmer chapter of the Unicode specification itself, in case you were wondering.)