Re: Lao

[Mark Leisher <mleisher@crl.nmsu.edu>]

    Markus> By the way, our -misc-fixed-*-iso10646-1 fonts do not yet cover
    Markus> Lao (U+0e80..U+0eff). If you can read Thai or Lao and feel
    Markus> confident in drawing the Lao glyphs or know someone who is
    Markus> familiar with the script, a contribution would be very welcome,
    Markus> especially for the 9x15, 9x18, or 10x20 font. Like Thai, the Lao
    Markus> font should be designed such that the combining characters work if
    Markus> simple overstriking of combining glyphs is used. If you can
    Markus> provide some Lao sample text, that would be also useful. It is
    Markus> probably a good idea to stay with the style close to the already
    Markus> available Thai glyphs, which were contributed by Theppitak
    Markus> Karoonboonyanan <thep@links.nectec.or.th>.

Possible Lao glyph sources:

1. Get the ETL fonts from the contrib section of X:

   ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/fonts/etl-unicode.tar.gz

   It has fixed width 14, 16, and 24pt Lao glyphs, a starting point for making
   smaller versions.

2. The Lao Alice TT fonts can be found at:

     http://seasrc.th.net/font/font.htm

3. Other Lao fonts.

   ftp://crl.nmsu.edu/CLR/multiling/lao/
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