From: African Oracle (oracle@africaservice.com)
Date: Mon May 03 2004 - 06:58:59 CDT
"As for the GB ligature, that might actually get encoded if you can provide
sufficent evidence for it." - D. Starner
That will not be a problem, because I still think things must be properly
done, language must be properly written, even where people have to combine,
the combination must be right. Just imagine how ugly a human image will look
with the nose where the ear is suppose to me and the ear on the chin.:-)
There are other characters that I am working on that belongs to the Edo
speaking people in Nigeria -
These are GH KH KP RH MW VB all these must be as close together as the Æ so
that people will know when one is talking about VB - Visual Basic of writing
a pure Edo language or Yorub language.
Dele Olawole
----- Original Message -----
From: "D. Starner" <shalesller@writeme.com>
To: "African Oracle" <oracle@africaservice.com>; <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: Nice to join this forum....
> > Yes, I have looked at the code and infact used the Microsoft Keyboard
> > Keyboard Layout without any success. One thing I observed is that since
the
> > character are not drawn with the accent assigned where they should be,
at
> > low font size they are disaster. Using Fontlab to design the fonts and
> > assigned codes the way they appear on the link only generate two
characters
> > in the font table.
> >
> > I thing it will be better if they are drawn out which I can do and
> > appropriate code assigned by UNICODE.
>
> Unicode will not allocate any more codes for characters that can be made
> precomposed, as it would disrupt normalization. Others can better tell
> you how to get the job done with what you have.
>
> As for the GB ligature, that might actually get encoded if you can
> provide sufficent evidence for it.
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