From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Fri Mar 19 2004 - 15:21:54 EST
Ar 19/03/2004 11:46, scríoḃ Marion Gunn (is that correct Irish old
orthography?):
>>... If there were text processing
>>resources
>>available for the Gaelic script, this could change.
>>
>>
>
>I have to agree with the above paragraph of Brian's.
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Well, any Unicode-compatible word processor, e-mailer etc should be able
to use the old Irish Gaelic orthography, with letters like U+1E03 which
I used above. So this can change now.
> ...
>
>Scríobh Peter Kirk <peter@qaya.org>:
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>
>>May I pick a nit here? Dotless i is used in the official orthography of
>>at least one non-Turkic language, that of Udi, a north-east Caucasian
>>minority language of Azerbaijan; I think it is also in the Latin script
>>orthography of Lezgi, the language of a much larger minority group.
>>
>>
>
>That is good news, if it equates to good news for Irish. Do you think it
>does, Peter? Too many more msgs to wade through, which ain't necessarily
>true.:-)
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I don't think it affects Irish, unless you want to be dotless Marıon ın
Irısh even when usıng a non-Gaelıc font. The consensus on the list seems
to be that Irish should be written with a normal i character and the dot
removed in particular fonts.
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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