[Myanmar] Analysis on Michael's Draft

[Htoo Myint Naung]

On Jul 13, 2007, at 9:18 PM, Michael Everson wrote:

> At 17:14 +0630 2007-07-10, Sai Zin Di Di Zone wrote:
>
>> I can agree your proposal but the glyphs of digits are different a
>> little, especially SHAN DIGIT TWO, SHAN DIGIT EIGHT, and SHAN DIGIT
>> NINE.
>
> OK, this is a glyph matter of course.
>
>> Where is the head of SHAN DIGIT TWO? And SHAN DIGIT EIGHT and SHAN
>> DIGIT NINE must be ellisped not circled.
>
> I can add a tick to the 2 if you like, and I can make the 8 and 9  
> narrower.
>
>> LETTER SHAN GA, LETTER SHAN ZA, LETTER SHAN DA, LETTER SHAN BA, and
>> LETTER SHAN THA should be positioned after all of the normal
>> consonants; after LETTER SHAN HA. Because they are only supplyment
>> consonants.
>
> The ordering which we give is a "unified" ordering for the Myanmar
> script in general -- it is not a language-specific ordering. I
> assumed that MYANMAR GA and MYANMAR SHAN GA would sort near each
> other. Do you have a dictionary or other word list which shows these
> characters actually sorted? Or a list explaining the alphabetical
> order?

	I also would like to see if there is any sorting system in Shan  
language. I agree with Michael on other things.

Htoo