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Re: OT: Semi-OT: Unicode keyboard

From:Garth Wallace <gwalla@...>
Date:Wednesday, August 4, 2004, 19:38
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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Muke Tever <hotblack@...>
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