Re: Toki Pona Script

Henrik Theiling wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Sai Emrys writes:
>> Very cute.
>
> Thanks! :-)
>
>> I didn't even know most of those existed in Unicode. ╦ (U+2763)
>> looks like a bottom T to me, not a heart-!; presumably most the
>> others are likewise mismatched. So does this require a special font?
Probably your browser is doing some kind of character substitution for
characters it doesn't recognize; ❣ and ╦ are different characters.

> No, well-working software and Unicode fonts provided, it *should*
> display quite well.  Some characters are from recent Unicode
> revisions, so my own browser does not show one or two characters
> correctly, but otherwise, it works well for me.
>
> The page itself should be viewable anyway, since I used images.  The
> online converter, however, can we switched to produce plain Unicode.
> I guess you tried that, right?  Otherwise, wrong glyphs, i.e., broken
> .gif files, would really surprise me.
I like ዥ for "animal" -- how long did it take to find that one? There
are some interesting creative uses of characters that otherwise don't
seem very useful, like the snowman character ☃ (who'd have thought there
was a snowman character in Unicode?) for "cold". I'd like to know how
"snowman" ended up with a nice spot in the BMP, while "musical symbol
double sharp" (which seems far more useful to me) is in the barely
supported Page 1, but I guess someone must have had a reason.

While the online converter is a nice thing to have, I thought it would
be convenient to be able to type directly into a text editor, so I made
a Keyman keyboard for it.

ftp://ftp.io.com/pub/usr/hmiller/lang/TokiPona.kmx

You can type "mi wile toki li toki pona" and end up with ⇊ ❣ ᑈ ↴ ᑈ ☺,
just like on the online converter page! You can even leave out the
spaces: ⇊❣ᑈ↴ᑈ☺. You'll need Tavultesoft Keyman, which is at
http://www.tavultesoft.com/keyman/ , but it's free for home use.

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