Re: Interlinears

Paul Bennett wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 00:14:13 -0500, Tristan McLeay
> <conlang@...> wrote:
>
>> BEWARE! Unicode (UTF-8) characters lurk within!
>>
>>> Where's all the outrage from SEA about this?
>>
>>
>> SEA?
>
>
> South East Asia. All them pesky countries that actually *use* furigana
> /  ruby on a presumably often enough basis for it to be part of the
> HTML  standard for the last 4 years (which is a long time in HTML years).
I dunno *they'd* do much with it. AFAIK, all South East Asian languages
use the Latin alphabet, apart from remote outposts of Chinese (like
Malaysian Chinese). Eastern Asia, on the other hand ... :)

AFAIK, Ruby is mostly used for learning material, so I wouldn't imagine
it's very common in the sort of thing webpages are used for.

...

> The Windows (and I think Mac, and possibly Linux) default Character Map
> applications know nothing about planes other than the BMP. You need to
> go  dig out a third party app, and/or look directly at the charts at
> http://www.unicode.org/
>
> Windows comes with support for Planes but it actually needs a registry
> kludge in order to activate it. I have no idea what the situation is
> for  other OSes. I got so pissed off by the font substitution in Linux
> that I  gave up trying to do anything clever with it.
There is no "Linux character map", default or otherwise. The Gnome
Unicode Character Map, which is the one I was using, does show the
Gothic and Old Italic sets, which I believe are in astral planes.

I cannot fathom why anyone would get pissed off by the font substitution
you get on Free desktops. It doesn't take anything away, it just gives
you extra characters that aren't in the current font. It might look a
little ugly, but I'd rather ugliness than Windows-style boxes.

--
Tristan.

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