Arabic-L:GEN:Mac Transliteration Fonts

[Dilworth Parkinson]

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Date: 04 Aug 2003
From: Kino <quinon at rio.odn.ne.jp>
Subject:Mac Transliteration Fonts

> Couldn't any unicode font that covers Latin and IPA extensions serve
> as a
> transliteration font?

Yes. Gentium, Thryomanes, TITUS Cyberbit Basic cover those ranges.
You'll find download link at
	<http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts.html#general>

> All that would be needed is to hack out a keyboard
> layout (it's just XML, right?) to make the appropriate characters
> easily
> accessible.

Yes. I made such a keylayout by extending U.S. Extended.
	<http://quinon.com/files/keylayouts/LatinTL_X.dmg.sit>
Please try it if you are interested in it.

See also <http://quinon.com/files/keylayouts/KeyboardMenuOddity.txt>.

Kino

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