The
Tai
Tham codepoint U+1A58 TAI THAM SIGN MAI LANG KAI is challenging
due to its wide range of behaviours. It can behave as a spacing
final character (as in modern Tai Khün fonts) to a repha-like
character, the old-fashioned behaviour seen in Tai Khün, Thailand
and Laos. The
MFL dictionary shows an intermediate behaviour, where
marks above the following base consonant cause it to be positioned
within the previous syllable. This is the style employed by the
test font, which has
been contributed by
Richard Wordingham and
whose
browser test page for Tai Tham rendering gives more
background.