We began supporting Laotian in the late 80s with a variety of
fonts, followed by language kit products over the years. The upcoming
version of the Laotian Language Kit however marks
the first Unicode Laotian solution for the Macintosh from XenoType
Technologies.
Basic support for modern Lao is relatively simple, especially
when compared to the older varieties of the script. We use some
basic typographic features to display Laotian text properly and
there are also a few graphic transpositions but this is all
handled seamlessly by our Lao fonts.
Our initial font release will also support the use of the new standard Pali orthography in Lao script.
With an appropriate Unicode-compatible application, you can use
our Lao language support to produce lots of different types of
documents, including emails, web pages, standard text documents
and lots more.
The Laotian Language Kit ships with one base font, illustrated above, and one keyboard driver which supports the Duanjan standard. Additional fonts will be available soon.