Tai Tham (Unicode block): Difference between revisions

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U+1A62 MAI SAT serves three roles - it is a vowel, a final consonant, and a vowel shortener.

Choosing the encoding of the superscript form of RA and the vowel killers was difficult. In the 1940's1940s the Tai Khuen wrote the consonant and the vowel killer the same way. The proposers of the encoding made enquiries and were told that the glyphs were still the same and therefore encoded them both as U+1A7A RA HAAM. It was then learnt that the Tai Khuen had changed the glyphs of the vowel killer, and a new character U+1A7C KARAN was added for the Tai Khuen style of the vowel killer. Some Northern Thai writers prefer to use U+1A7C as the vowel killer, and indeed the use of its glyph is not unknown in Northern Thai handwriting.

==Special Consonants==