Re: Re: [native-lang] CTL, RTL and VTL

 On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 Kazunari Hirano wrote :
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>When you say Thai is CTL, how is Thai text layout complex?
>I don't see exactly what CTL means, what is complex.
>Thai, Oriya, Urdu, Arabic, Hebrew and so on are called CTL languages.
>Why are they called CTL?  What are they complex about?

Because their layout is complicated :-) Oriya involves a lot of
reordering of input characters, as well as substitution of glyphs
for sequences of input characters, and I believe Thai is also
similar. Urdu, and Arabic letters can change shapes depending on
their position in the word.

Regards,
Gora