RE: Handling Aboriginal Languages

Hello Brian,

I've been thinking that I need to get to grips with Latin-based language
pickers and keyboard layouts for a while, so this morning before starting
work I wrote one.  It was done quickly, so I may need to improve a few
things later, but it may be of some use to you for inputting Tli?cho?.

You can find it at 

http://rishida.net/scripts/pickers/tlicho/

Hope that helps,
RI


PS: There seems to be a bug when you use in IE.  I'll have to sort that out
later. Seems to work fine in Firefox, Chrome and Opera.


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Richard Ishida
Internationalization Lead
W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)

http://www.w3.org/International/
http://rishida.net/



> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-international-request@w3.org [mailto:www-international-
> request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Brian Cassidy
> Sent: 14 January 2009 14:48
> To: www-international@w3.org
> Subject: Handling Aboriginal Languages
> 
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> As a web developer in Canada, I've had to deal with both of our
> official languages: French and English. Today I've been given a new
> challenge as one of our clients wants to develop a site in some
> Aboriginal languages (Tlicho [1] for e.g.).
> 
> Now, traditionally I just do everything in utf-8 and send that across
> the wire. However, with this language, are there even unicode
> codepoints for it? If so, how would i do the data entry? There are
> fonts available for the language so i could "cheat" and go that route
> as well.
> 
> Does anyone have any advice on what direction I should follow?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> -Brian Cassidy (brian.cassidy@gmail.com)
> 
> [1] http://www.tlicho.ca/

Received on Thursday, 15 January 2009 11:17:59 UTC