Handy Utilities for Indigenous Language Use

[Keola Donaghy]

Aloha kākou, I've spent a few days on this and figured it would be worth sharing:

I’m frequently find myself lamenting that I don’t have a system for easily determining what default fonts on Mac OS support Hawaiian. I know a few off the top of my head – Lucida Grande, Helvetica, Times New Roman, Palatino, Courier, Didot – but not all. This is complicated by the fact that some fonts have most of the vowel kahakō combinations but not the ‘okina. A few have the ‘okina but not the vowel kahakō combinations, which makes choosing a non-standard font a bit of an adventure. I decided to spend some time working on this and found a couple of tools on the Mac and Windows that helped. I’m documenting it here since it may be of use to others:

http://www.keoladonaghy.com/blog/2011/01/06/handy-utilities-for-indigenous-language-use/

There are links to the two documents I created and shared on Scribd.com that show which fonts on Mac OS (10.6.4) and Windows Vista support our characters.

I hope others find these useful.

Keola

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Keola Donaghy                                           
Assistant Professor of Hawaiian Studies 
Ka Haka 'Ula O Ke'elikolani             keola at leoki.uhh.hawaii.edu 
University of Hawai'i at Hilo           http://www2.hawaii.edu/~donaghy/

"Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam."  (Irish Gaelic saying)
A country without its language is a country without its soul.
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