Re: [unicode] Re: Canadian aboriginal syllabics in vertical writing mode

From: Jean-François Colson <jf_at_colson.eu>
Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 04:12:08 +0200

Le 01/05/12 20:19, Michael Everson a écrit :
> On 1 May 2012, at 17:05, Julian Bradfield wrote:
>
>> On 2012-05-01, Michael Everson<everson_at_evertype.com> wrote:
>>> than it is in English, except in neon). The examples you showed were made by people who hadn't thought about what they were doing. Since
>> Don't you think the native speakers might know what they're doing?
> Being a native speaker of a language does not confer an ability to typeset. But government documents are often translated from majority languages into minority languages and make use of the template handed to them (in this case most likely French or English).
It seems
http://www.gov.nu.ca/save10/English/Documents/Newsletters/Newsletter%203/Newsletter%203%20-%20Inuktitut.pdf
was published by the government of Nunavut, not the federal government.
And, in Nunavut, Inuktitut is the majority language.
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