[tai_lanna_thai]: rename keyboard discussion

[Meng-Heng]

Hello, @LornaSIL and @Jayasiri-Jayasaro.

Could we rename the keyboard?

From Ben:
I might suggest calling it 'Tham Lanna' instead of 'Tai Lanna', since 'Thai Lanna' is an alternative name for Fakkham (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fakkham_script)

Original post: https://typo.social/@keyman/115065717599732504.

[ohbendy]

First, it's fantastic to see a keyboard for Tham script, good work!

So the Lanna kingdom used two scripts: Tham Lanna (Tua Meuang) for Buddhist texts, and Fakkham (Thai Lanna) for secular uses. 'Tai Lanna' isn't a term I've heard anyone use, and I'd suggest using the standard term Tham Lanna.

(Unicode chose to unify Tham Lanna and Tham Lao/Isaan with Khoen and Tai Leu, and I believe Martin and some other people have been working on an encoding order/syllable structure that could work for all those [the last update I saw was from 2019]. When that specification is complete it might also have implications on the keyboarding for Tham Lanna.)

[LornaSIL]

Well, we cannot change the ID for the keyboard tai_lanna_thai because that's now part of a permanent URL, but if the author (@Jayasiri-Jayasaro wants to consider changing the name of it, that would be okay.

[LornaSIL]

Oh, it is in experimental, so although we don't like changing IDs we would be willing to change the ID in case this is important. I'll let @Jayasiri-Jayasaro weigh in.

[DavidLRowe]

I suppose we could copy the keyboard, change the name in the new copy, and deprecate the existing keyboard.

[mcdurdin]

I suppose we could copy the keyboard, change the name in the new copy, and deprecate the existing keyboard.

That's the preferred method for renaming a published keyboard -- that way existing users of the keyboard get upgraded to the new keyboard, and links don't break.