Re: Thai Numbering in gnome-doc-utils

[Simos Xenitellis <simos74 gmx net>]

Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm going to translate gnome-doc-utils into Thai and find
> two required Thai numberings are missing. One is Thai alphabetical,
> and the other is Thai decimal digits.
>
> Thai alphabetical numbering is run with Thai consonants in the range:
>
>  U+0E01 (THAI CHARACTER KO KAI)
>    :
>  U+0E2E (THAI CHARACTER HO NOKHUK)
>
> with three characters skipped, namely:
>
>  - U+0E03 (THAI CHARACTER KHO KHUAT)
>  - U+0E05 (THAI CHARACTER KHO KHON)
>  - U+0E06 (THAI CHARACTER KHO RAKHANG)
>
> (i.e. the sequence is: U+0E01, U+0E02, U+0E04, U+0E07 .. U+0E2E)
>
> This is mainly used for numbering appendixes in Thai
> documents, and occasionally used in ordered lists.
>
> Numbering with Thai decimal digits is less used in general,
> but exists  in most official or military documents. It just uses
> Thai digits in the range (U+0E50..U+0E50) for 0..9 respectively.
>
> I'm not sure about digits bahavior described by W3C's XSLT,
> nor what have been done in gnome-doc-utils, but let me mention
> a common mistake in some implementations: the assumed translation
> of digits. We would need an explicit way to specify whether to use
> Thai digits in numbering, rather than automatically translated.
>
> Thank you for your attention. Any comment would be appreciated.
>  
That's quite an interesting issue.
I did not notice this information in the locale settings, nor in the
documentation of gettext.
Perhaps the linux-utf8 list is more appropriate for this?
I am cc:ing there as well.

Simos