Re: [Idna-update] IDNA and combining sequences (was: Re: Expiration impending: <draft-klensin-idna-rfc5891bis-01.txt>)

"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Tue, 13 March 2018 21:47 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Idna-update] IDNA and combining sequences (was: Re: Expiration impending: <draft-klensin-idna-rfc5891bis-01.txt>)
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In article <73252c78-361c-c8cb-e392-c5b4c41deded@ix.netcom.com> you write:
>Here's a link to the human readable version of the Thai LGR:
>https://www.icann.org/sites/default/files/lgr/lgr-2-thai-script-01jun17-en.html

>I would be curious, whether you can make sense out of the description 
>for Thai in the Root Zone. I also invite you to compare that LGR to some 
>of the gTLD IDN tables for Thai.

I think I can follow them OK.  The characters each are characterized
as consonant, various types of vowels, tones, and diacritics.  The
ordering rules would make more sense to me as regular expressions.

R's,
John