Add ຫນ and ຫມ to Lao linting
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@mattleff The "hn" combination in Thai takes two characters ห and น , But in Lao they have a combined character that does that, ໜ. This is used in the same way as in Thai. The "h" is silent and serves as a tone marker. When typing in Lao, it is very common to make the mistake of typing the "h" and the "n" separately. This needs to be flagged. I discovered dozens of instances through the linting process, but removed this rule after making the corrections. There are a finite number of words that legitimately have ຫນ and not ໜ. I need a way of treating these exceptions.
The same goes for "hm"
Currently, the only exception for ຫນ is ຫວງແຫນ -- Jealously (in certain contexts)
Currently, the only exception for ຫມ is ເນເຫມີຢາ -- Nehemiah
The example in Thai is for reason of comparison. The issue is in Lao. I'm thinking that the best place to deal with this is in custom-formatting.lo.js and not in the forbidden_lao_terms.txt file. But you may have a better solution. (BTW, Why does the file have two file extentions? Is that a naming convention I am unaware of? As long as we are consistent in the types of files, I don't have a problem. So .lua and .js and .md don't have to have the same convention.)
CC @tonyquicktech for linguistic interest.
@bountonw I've added a PR for this.
The [name].[i18n].[ext] naming format is quite common in localization code, so I'm appropriating it for our lang-specific linting code. I think it makes more sense for code files where it could be dropped to indicate globally-applicable code vs. translation files, etc. where every .md will always and only contain 1 language.