Yes, that's a Thai display face. You can often find non-roman display fonts that assimilate to some degree to roman lettershapes, perhaps so that advertising combining it with a text in English etc. will not look discombobulated.

For some reason Windows ships with a dozen or more Thai faces, but with one or fewer faces for other Southeast Asian (I suppose they don't expect to sell many computers in Burma) and for Indian scripts.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...


----- Original Message ----
From: Nicholas Bodley <nbodley@...>
To: qalam@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 12:55:56 AM
Subject: Re: Chong orthography --> unfamiliar characters


On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:48:57 -0400, Richard Wordingham
<richard@...> wrote:

> There's a description of the language at
> http://www.thapra.lib.su.ac.th/thesis/showthesis_th.asp?id=0000000325

Delightful!

At the upper right I see something unusual; it seems to be a fairly-long
word, that starts with a glyph like a reversed [c] with something like a
high overscore, and seems to end in ?[ulau]?.

What is this? A different, modern-styled typeface/font for Thai?

(I'm totally ignorant of the Thai alphabet, btw, other than recognizing it
to be Thai when I see it.)

Some enlightenment will be welcomed.