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<DIV><SPAN class=485590523-17092004><FONT face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック" color=#0000ff
size=2>Thanks to both Patrick Chew and Peter Kirk! I guess I was asking the
wrong people.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=485590523-17092004><FONT face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック" color=#0000ff
size=2>I'm waiting for a new computer, that's why I had stopped working on this
issue. I was hoping to create a pan-Wakashan keyboard, and that superscripted
"w" was the most difficult character to deal with. I'll try again when my
computer comes in.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Peter
Kirk [mailto:peterkirk@qaya.org] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, September 17, 2004
3:40 PM<BR><B>To:</B> lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re:
[Lexicog] RE: Query re keyboard re-mapping<BR><BR></FONT><TT>On 17/09/2004
20:27, Benjamin J Barrett wrote:<BR><BR>> I suppose that's only natural,
though, since superscripting is a <BR>> formatting issue. I went to the
Unicode page and they have a FAQ <BR>> telling people not to request modified
letters. They have a variety of <BR>> diacritics that have a built-in
backspace so they appear above the <BR>> letter typed after them.<BR><BR>The
problem with what you write here is that Unicode *does* have a <BR>superscripted
w character, U+02B7, and indeed most other superscripted <BR>letters. These
characters are scattered around rather. Some of them are <BR>in the Spacing
Modifier Letters block, <BR><A
href="http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U02B0.pdf.">http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U02B0.pdf.</A>
More are in the Phonetic <BR>Extensions block, <A
href="http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D00.pdf.">http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D00.pdf.</A>
A few, <BR>mostly numerals, are in the Superscripts and Subscripts block, <BR><A
href="http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2070.pdf.">http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2070.pdf.</A>
And some are in the Latin-1 <BR>Supplement, <A
href="http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0080.pdf.">http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0080.pdf.</A>
I think between <BR>these different places there is a full superscript basic
Latin alphabet <BR>plus several special forms and some Greek letters. See also
<BR><A
href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/ch14.pdf,">http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/ch14.pdf,</A>
p.12 of this file <BR>which is numbered p.359.<BR><BR>If there are any other
superscripts which are needed to make a semantic <BR>distinction (rather than
just formatting) in any language and script, <BR>and you can prove this, Unicode
will add them.<BR><BR>Of course this doesn't solve the keyboarding issue. But
Tavultesoft <BR>Keyman and MS Keyboard Layout Creator will both allow you to
assign keys <BR>to any of these characters. And you need a font, of course, but
there <BR>are a number available which support these superscripts. For example,
<BR>Gentium (a free download from SIL) supports superscript w, but not all
<BR>of the superscripts. Code2000 should support all of them.<BR><BR>>
<BR>> With Longhorns (Windows 2006) well in the works, it might be too late,
<BR>> but it seems this is a critical issue for continuing the widening
<BR>> compatability of Microsoft's software with various languages. Again, I
<BR>> would like to make a strong case to Microsoft. Along with this is the
<BR>> need to change the two-letter language abbreviations used in HTML and
<BR>> Microsoft's language bars to a three-letter abbreviation such as the
<BR>> Ethnologue uses. With only two letters, we'll run out of possible
<BR>> languages after 625 languages.<BR><BR><BR>I know there is work in
progress on this. In fact I think there is <BR>already an international standard
in progress for three letter language <BR>identifiers or similar. But I don't
know what will be in
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