Re: Welsh orthography in Unicode

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Fri Jun 27 2008 - 04:15:45 CDT

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    At 07:26 +0200 2008-06-27, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote:

    >Don't get me wrong, I'm all for proper characters and such, but we're far,
    >far from that goal, even with Unicode 5.1 released. Most fonts are still
    >inadequate, most keyboards do not even present alternatives to basic ASCII
    >characters, most operating systems and their applications have no easy ways
    >to correct those characters into the more appropriate forms, when viewed on
    >the computer the difference between the characters is also not always as
    >clear as you'd expect it, so how can we even expect users to give a damn.

    What platform do you use, Jeroen?

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    Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
    


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