Re: OT: Semi-OT: Unicode keyboard

On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 05:38, Garth Wallace wrote:
> Tristan Mc Leay wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 08:15, Garth Wallace wrote:
> >
> >>I've released my "US Unicode" keymap for public use. It makes several
> >>obscure or archaic letters available, plus combining diacritics, and a
> >>lot of punctuation and symbols. If your conlang uses an odd or
> >>diacritic-heavy Latin orthography or transliteration, this keyboard
> >>might be useful to you. It can be found here:
> >><http://www.livejournal.com/users/gwalla/45253.html>
> >
> > *Please* correct the issue about 'Irish gh'. What you offer will be
> > useful and probably work it's way up Google rankings... Don't knowingly
> > spread false information.
> >
> > (If you don't think me telling you counts, try googling. On my side is
> > e.g. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogh> and
> > <http://www.evertype.com/standards/wynnyogh/ezhyogh.html> and
> > <http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=yogh>. On your side... is
> > nothing that I could find...)
>
>  From the Wikipedia article you linked:
>
> "The character yogh - pronounced either [joUk], [joUg], [joU] or [joUx]
> - came into Old English spelling via Irish. It stood for /g/ and its
> various allophones - including the velar fricative [G] (voiced [x]) and
> [g] - as well as the phoneme /j/ (y in modern English spelling)."
Mm, and the letter F came to English from the Semitic letter waw via
Greek digamma. Does that mean F is waw or digamma? No. It means that's
it's history.

> I don't see the problem. I'm not going to clutter a list of the names of
> the various characters in the keymap with an essay on the history of one
> letter.
I'm not asking you to. I'm asking you to change the words 'Old Irish' to
'Middle English'.

--
Tristan.