Type Gothic with a Gothic keyboard in Linux (type directly, no websites needed)

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On Sunday, May 18, 2014 8:15 PM, "Dicentis a roellingua at gmail.com [gothic-l]" <gothic-l at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
  


  
It just means that if I go to my keyboards in Linux and I change it to Russian, I can type like this:

здравствуйте!

If I copy this, I will get cyrillic symbols. If I copy a FONT with Russian, you get Latin symbols, not Cyrillic ones. I can also change my keyboard to Gothic: 

𐌷𐌴𐌹𐌻𐍃! 𐌹𐌺 𐌼𐌰𐌲 𐍂𐍉𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽 𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃!

If I copy this, I will copy Gothic unicode letters instead of Latin ones, you can't do this with .ttf as far as I know. When you copy a text which is generated with .ttf, you get Latin symbols. Just look at the Gothic wikipedia and try to copy the Gothic symbols, you won't get Latin symbols back in a .txt file but Gothic unicode characters. 

https://got.wikipedia.org/wiki/%F0%90%8C%B7%F0%90%8C%B0%F0%90%8C%BF%F0%90%8C%B1%F0%90%8C%B9%F0%90%8C%B3%F0%90%8C%B0%F0%90%8D%83%F0%90%8C%B4%F0%90%8C%B9%F0%90%8C%B3%F0%90%8D%89




2014-05-19 3:10 GMT+02:00 Michael Everson everson at evertype.com [gothic-l] <gothic-l at yahoogroups.com>:

 
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>On 19 May 2014, at 01:16, Dicentis a roellingua at gmail.com [gothic-l] <gothic-l at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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>> so that you can directly use it, instead of with a .ttf file which doesn't show up among the official keyboard lay-outs.
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No idea what this means. A .ttf file is a font. It has glyphs which display shapes of characters. It is entirely unrelated to keyboard layouts or other input methods. 
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>Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
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