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Besides ก (0xe01), the rest of the Thai characters (in 0xe02-0xe59) are letters ขฃคฅฆงจฉชซฌญฎฏฐฑฒณดตถทธนบปผฝพฟภมยรฤลฦวศษสหฬอฮฯะาๅ, alphabetic non-spacing marks ัิีึืฺุูํ which can follow the preceding characters, and render as stacked (as shown by the OP), five "marks" เแโใไ (with unicode's Logical Order Exception) which can precede the following character, diacritic non-spacing marks ็่้๊๋์๎ which also render as stacked, modifier letter ๆ ,digits 0-9 ๐๑๒๓๔๕๖๗๘๙ ,currency symbol Baht ฿, and punctuation symbols ๏๚๛

Thai looks to be a pretty gr๏๏vy language, like many other natural languages - perhaps some programming languages will catch up in their enhanced use of lexical tokens one day, instead of just relying on grammar, long English names packed into name hierarchies, and multi-ASCII symbols.



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