Northern Khmer on iPhone

[Alastair Houghton]

On 28 Feb 2017, at 21:00, Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 28 Feb 2017 07:37:10 +0000
> Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> 
>> Does iPhone support the use of Northern Khmer in Thai script?  I would
>> count an interface in Thai as support.
>> 
>> The reason I ask is that I tried entering the word กฺี <U+0E01 THAI
>> CHARACTER KO KAI, U+0E3A THAI CHARACTER PHINTHU, U+0E35 THAI CHARACTER
>> SARA II> 'he' and got a dotted circle.  I also got a dotted circle for
>> the alternative spelling <U+0E01, U+0E35, U+0E3A>.
> 
> It's been suggested to me that this is just a font issue.
> Unfortunately, it seems that one can't change the font without
> jailbreaking the phone.

It’s definitely a font issue - the same problem exists on macOS Sierra (if I change the message to Rich Text, such that the font used is Helvetica, I see the same dotted circle problem; the fixed-width font I use, SF Mono, does not have this problem…).

The best solution here may be to file a bug report at <http://bugreport.apple.com> asking for font support, assuming the program you were using is using one of the Apple supplied fonts.

(Also, FYI, iOS applications can - and some do - install and use their own fonts.  It’s per-application, though; you can’t install them system-wide.)

Kind regards,

Alastair.

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