UPA accepted into Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646

[Johanna Laakso]

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Michael Everson <everson at evertype.com> wrote:
>
> >Kazuto Matsumura <kmatsum at tooyoo.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp> wrote:
> >
> >>  Dear Michael, Klaas, Trond and Erkki!
> >>
> >>  Congratualtions and Many thanks!
>
> Our pleasure.
>
> >  > Now it's up to us, the rank and file Uralists, how soon, if
> >>  ever, the symbols become available on our PC/Mac. Let us
> >>  show our readiness as well as eagerness to use them. It
> >>  should be emphasized that they should be available world-wide,
> >>  to use computerese (?), in every locale just as the IPA
> >>  extensions are.
>
> Lots and lots of people don't have IPA fonts.
>
> UPA fonts should be fairly complex considering all the diacritics
> which are used in various positions and sizes. I have discussed with
> Klaas and Trond the possibility of developing a fully-Unicode capable
> font which could be freely available.
>
> One thing we all need to think about is how best to input such a
> large set of characters.
> --
> Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
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