Bad Lao Rain
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This is a graphic image of the three characters
that make up the Lao word for rain:
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This is text rendered by your browser:
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This is how it is rendered by Firefox 3.0.16
under Ubuntu Linux 8.04.3 LTS.
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My Windows XP doesn't support Lao at all.
- Whether the three characters are entered
as html entities (ຝົນ)
or as actual unicode characters
(the file being either UTF-8 or UCS-2)
the middle character appears as the
graphic belonging to ຍ instead
of the graphic belonging to ົ.
- If the first character is "ອ" (hex 0EA3) then the middle
character displays correctly, but if it is "ຝ"
(hex 0E93) then it displays incorrectly.
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If the first character is in the range 0E90-0E93
or 0E98
that character does not display even though that
value as &#...; displays correctly.
In these cases, of course,
the vowel appears correctly over a missing character.
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If the first character is 0E94, 0E95, 0E97, or 0E99
it displays correctly.
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If the character is 0E9B or 0E9D
it displays incorrectly as shown above.
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I have not yet tested other consonants.
Apparently if a Lao unicode character is entered
as &#...; then Firefox 3.0 does all right,
but if it appears as a native character in the file
(legal because of the <meta> tag in the
<head> section)
then Firefox 3.0 has severe problems.
Other programs under Ubuntu Linux
do this test case correctly
but have other problems with Lao characters.