Re: OT: Semi-OT: Unicode keyboard

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)."

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.

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