Discussion on Collation of Tibetan Syllable

Based on the general syllable structure, a syllable’s component letters should be expanded orderly into the series of basic consonant, prefix consonant, head consonant… and the second suffix consonant. If there is no letter in a syllable’s particular position, a special character, whose collation element is less than that of any Tibetan letter, should be used in the corresponding position of the expanded series. Thus, we have a character series that is canonically equivalent to the Tibetan syllable. Furthermore, a syllable’s collation element series could be developed by introducing each character's collation element and each syllable could be collated correctly with its collation element series. However, for the sake of memory saving, a syllable’s collation element series is compressed with the Run-Length algorithm and the final compression ratio reaches 4:1.